Redlining

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.