Seven years on from calls for 'regime change' and pleas of 'won't someone think of the children?', from the demonisation of the Assad regime in the Western Media (while it ignores lots of other unpleasant regimes around the world). Even after the horrors of the 20th century, after the crime-against-humanity that was the US/UK invasion of Iraq, after the rape and destruction of Libya and it's people, still, STILL we fell for the propaganda machine as it selected Syria as it's next target.
As each new 'bogeyman' is presented to us, we are made to forget context...about what happened all the other times the US/UK 'bombed countries for peace'. Iraq without the decade of crippling sanctions, then the war, then the utter devastation unleashed afterwards as the country collapsed, would (in all probability) still be an advanced nation with excellent education, healthcare and sanitation, human-rights, rule of law, equal rights for woman, wages approaching that of Western Europe. What did we get instead? MILLIONS dead, millions more crippled and injured, the country ripped apart and returned to the dark ages - no running water, no power grid, no secure food supply, no healthcare, no education, women's rights taken back to somewhere circe 1200 A.D.
But that was Iraq, Syria will be different. Let's see the results there:
500,000 deaths, over a million casualties, 12 million people left without homes. It was a seemingly endless struggle-without end against those (CIA trained, equipped and funded) bogey-men 'ISIS'. Then Russia appeared to help Assad's government and in a few short months the fighting was practically over. We can conclude two things from this: EITHER the greatest war-machine the world has ever seen (the US military) isn't actually very effective...OR the US/UK didn't want the Syrian conflict to end. I'll save you the trouble of deciding, it's the latter. An ongoing Syrian conflict served the interests of whoever pulls-the-strings in London and Washington.
I note (without surprise) that Russian bomber pilots have reported many cases where US airforce fighters prevented them bombing ISIS positions. In other words, the US/UK have been providing air cover for their allies (ISIS) on the ground.
I never thought I'd say it, but thank goodness for the Russians. Even with the devastation orchestrated from Washington and London, the Syrian state remained intact. Without them, we'd have had 'another Libya', with millions more desperate refugees crossing the Mediterranean and into Europe in search of hope.
Our 'leaders' and the Mainstream Media are a bunch of lying, murdering genocidal psychopaths. The only right/honourable thing to do as human beings that would prefer it if millions of other human beings weren't murdered in our name, is to withdraw our support for 'our' governments, media and banks (that seem to be the 'power behind the throne' directing and encouraging conflict).
Stop voting, stop consuming mainstream media, stop paying taxes. These are actions within our powers that can help start the process of preventing the 21st century just being a murderous re-run of the 20th.
Thank goodness for crypto.