If one views Syria as a mere proxy battle between the US and Russia, then use of Chechens as patsies in the Boston bombing makes more sense. Public figures could easily communicate in private and convey their threats and make their deals, but every word by an official has to carry with it a demonstration of the power to carry out threats. So in some fashion the Boston bombing, while at once keeping Americans in a high state of tension, also served to send a message to the Russians.
(It also was a nice cover for another bombing incident at the JFK Archives.)
What to make of it all? Who knows. If Russia has made it clear by its own actions that an attack on Syria is a red line, and if the Americans are now a telling Russia that they are ready to cross that line*, then we’ve got problem. But all of this posturing and redlining has a purpose. Powerful people are talking to one another.
In our highly censored environment we only hear the voices of our sock puppets. But American and NATO forces so far have caused the deaths of 70,000 Syrians, and the Russians are keenly aware that many more are at risk if the Americans unleash the NATO dogs once more. The stakes are high – I wonder if the people in DC who so easily kill so many have more surprises in store for Syria as well as poor schmucks who like to run in foot races.
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*No one in Washington gives two shits about chemical weapons. Get real. Americans drenched Vietnam in Agent Orange and sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and then sat idly by while he gassed Kurds … This country is the Bizzaroville, a poster child for hypocrisy in the art of posturing.
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Weapons-sales marketing, like most marketing, exploits fear and insecurity. Nothing sells “security” like mayhem. Middle East arms sales represents a huge percentage of total global sales. U.S. and Russia dominate the sector. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-sales-reach-66-3-billion-in-2011.html?_r=0
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I sometimes minimize the Ruskies’ ability for treachery. Just sloppy thinking habits. I worry more about American criminals.
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So Americans sold chem weapons to Saddam?
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First you’ve heard of it? Why am I not surprised.
Anthrax too.
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This one’s better.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/03/powells_former_chief_of_staff_chemical_weapon_use_in_syria_could_have_been_an_israeli_false_flag_operation.html
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I’ve referenced here hacked files from a British defense contractor, BRITAM, that refers to a Qatari suggestion that the Turks deliver some chemicals in Russian containers to blame on Assad, and that Washington had approved and that big money was in it. The most interesting part of it was that it would be a TV event – that is, filmed somewhere else and then supplied to our complicit media to present as the real thing.
Once Obama announced that chemicals were a “red line” is was apparent to me that there would be a chemical event. But right now I think the US and Russians are parrying with one another, so that most of what is floating around, including possibly BRITAM, is deliberate misinfo.
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