Russia Defeats Terrorism… While America Hails a Freak
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By Finian Cunningham
August
01, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Sputnik" - A curious thing in the Western
media this weekend is how little coverage is being given to a momentous victory
unfolding in Syria. The Syrian Arab Army and Russian forces are about to close
the final chapter in the five-year war – and the Western media don’t seem to
want to know about it.
Indeed,
far more media coverage is given to Hillary
Clinton’s nomination as the
Democrat’s presidential candidate. While Clinton was declaring to her
party’s convention how she would wipe out Islamist terrorists in the
Middle East, the Syrian army and its Russian allies were actually getting
on withthat very job.
Syria’s
northern city of Aleppo – which was the country’s biggest city
before the onset of the war in 2011 – is about to be fully
retaken by the Syrian army, supported by Russian air power. Humanitarian
corridors have been
created to allow civilians and surrendering fighters to escape
before the final assault begins on anti-government militias holed
up in the east of the city
The
militants are an amalgam of illegally armed groups, including the
proscribed terrorist
brigades affiliated to al-Qaeda. Western governments and media engage in cynical
word games by referring to some of the fighters as “moderates” and
“rebels”.
For
example, a CNN report states: “Syrian and Russian forces are to open
humanitarian corridors for people to flee the besieged city of Aleppo, officials in both countries said Thursday, the
day after Syria’s army announced it had encircled the city and cut
off rebel [sic] supply routes.”
Note
how the nice-sounding word “rebel” is invoked as a way of sanitizing
the fact that the city has been besieged by extremists, who have seen fit
to chop off the heads of their victims, including 10-year-old boys.
What
Syrian and Russian forces are about to achieve in the recapture
of Aleppo is nothing short of a historic victory. It is not just the
symbolism of regaining Syria’s second city, which has the strategic
significance of government-controlled Damascus. With its proximity
to the Turkish border, Aleppo has been a bastion for illicit flow
of weapons and mercenaries that has fueled the entire Syrian conflict.
The
United States and its NATO allies, Britain and France, have worked
with their regional partners Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to use Aleppo as the staging post for their covert, dirty
war of regime change against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The
death-cult mercenaries for this foreign conspiracy of regime change
in Syria have come from all over the world, from some 100
countries, including Western and Arab states, as well as from
Russia’s Caucuses.
In
many ways, Aleppo represents the last stand for the regime-change forces.
When Aleppo finally falls in the coming weeks, it will spell the end
of Syria’s torturous conflict which was imposed on the country
by the US and its allies for the purpose of regime change
under the guise of a “pro-democracy” uprising.
What
an indictment that is of Washington’s criminality and that of its
rogue state cronies. Some 400,000 people killed over the past five years and nearly
half the population of 23 million turned into refugees. The refugee
crisis and blowback terrorism that Europe is confronted with are also
repercussions from this foreign criminal conspiracy to subvert Syria.
The
victory against state-sponsored terrorism on Syria is a tribute
to the tenacity and courage of the Syrian people, their
government and their army.
And
in that victory Russia has played a formidable, heroic role. President
Assad has acknowledged the vital role of Russia’s military intervention
in saving his nation from the fate that other nations have succumbed
to, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – all victims of US-led
regime-change machinations.
When
Russian President Vladimir Putin resolved
to send in his military forces to salvage Syria at the end of September 2015, the
turnaround was immediate and crucial.
The
industrial-scale oil smuggling routes run by the jihadist networks
in eastern Syria were smashed by Russian air power. That cut
off major financial support to the jihadists which the Turkish state
had facilitated. That, in turn, left the terrorist center at Raqqa
to wither from isolation.
The
retaking of ancient Palmyra in the center of Syria with its
world-class archaeological heritage was also another momentous victory
for the Syrian army and its Russian ally. The holding of a classical
music concert by Russian artists among the Romanesque ruins
recaptured from terrorists was not merely smart public relations. It spoke
eloquently of what the Syrian war was all about.
A
conflict between a sovereign nation supported by Russia
against barbaric killers mobilized by lawless foreign powers.
The
battle now underway for Aleppo is one more – perhaps the final – historic
stage in Syria’s struggle against regime-change forces. Russia and
President Putin can proudly take pride of place in this historic
victory.
No
wonder then that Western media would rather ignore what is happening in Syria.
For years, they have spun a torrent of lies and fabrications, claiming
that “rebels” were fighting for democracy against a
“tyrannical regime”.
Now
as Syrian and Russian forces bear down on these “rebel” remnants the
truth is hardly deniable. They are being seen for what they are: a network
of terrorist mercenaries deployed by the United States and its
allies, who are facing ultimate defeat.
And
so in order to avoid the moment of ghastly truth, and their own
complicity in state-sponsored terrorism, the Western media
by necessity have to pan away from Syria and the battle
of Aleppo.
They
turn to a new narrative for distraction – the “wonderful” nomination
of Hillary Clinton as the first woman to run for the US
presidency.
Typical
of the inane subject-changing maneuver are glowing quotes from Clinton
on how she will lead America and the world in defeating jihadist terrorism.
This
is the same Clinton who as US Secretary of State (2009-2013)
orchestrated the covert war for regime change in Syria, with the
despicable deployment of terrorist mercenaries guided by the American
Central Intelligence Agency.
That
is, the very war that Russia is now helping to finally put an end to,
along with extinguishing the US-sponsored “moderate” terror groups.
Washington and Clinton in particular may start wars, but evidently it
is Russia that finishes them.
Yet,
amazingly, listening to Clinton regale her supporters at the Democrat
convention this week one cannot but be in awe of the astronomical
cognitive dissonance. A warmonger posing as a champion for world
peace and law and order?
This
breath-taking, absurd deception is only made possible because of the way
Western media operate to change the narrative, distort perspectives and
obliterate the facts.
But
the incontrovertible fact is that Russia and Syria are winning a historic war
against Western-backed terrorist aggression. Aleppo is the clarion call
for this victory.
The
Western media can’t handle that. Instead, they are obliged to try
to shift the focus. And to whom do they turn for light relief?
Why, one of the culprit architects of the criminal war on Syria
– Hillary Clinton – and her promises to defend America
from Russia and terrorists.
American
politics and media deception – what a freak show.
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