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by NSS staff
The West does not provide blow-by-blow information on the Syrian and Iraqi war. In fact, it provides next to none, because if it did, the US would have to admit that Russia defeated ISIS in Syria, not the US, as the White House brazenly claims. Of course, any Westerner who wants badly enough to get this can go to a variety of sites, such as Southfront, SANA, Al-Masdar, Russia Insider or RT, but these are sites that the Western elites are scared to death that you should see because they would very soon show you that the US is obfuscating and hiding from you the most vital facts about the US’ role in the Middle East conflicts. One of the most despicable things that the US has done is train and arm Kurdish fighters to fight terrorists in areas that it pretends are de-confliction zones agreed upon with Russia, although, as the Russian war department keeps pointing out, no such agreement exists. The zones were set up unilaterally by the US on territory on which it is a trespasser. Just as despicably, starting in the Obama administration, but not limited thereto, the USAF has been occasionally killing Syrian troops who stray into these zones and then saying “oops, just a mistake.” More despicably still, the US has pretended that these areas where its Kurdish puppets are operating are Kurdish territory but they are not. You can find maps of Syrian Kurdistan (known also as Rojava in the Kurdish tongue), which clearly show that areas such as Manbij, Raqqa and, especially, Deir Ezzor, are well outside the Kurdish region and are Arab territories that by all rights belong to the Syrian state. The truth is that Deir Ezzor is home not to a Kurdish populace but rather to the Omar oil field, the richest in Syria, and this is why the US pretends the Kurds have a natural interest in protecting it from the clutches of its rightful owners, the Syrian people as represented by their duly elected Dr. Assad, whom Americans are to hate with due patriotic fervour if they wish to hold their exceptional heads up high and mightily. It is simply child’s play to find out such information but not even the most astute Western journalists bother to seek it out, or perhaps they know that if they were to report it, they would almost certainly be barred from their profession, where honesty is the worst policy. And this applies to the entire political spectrum. The problem with Western journalism is that only a few approved viewpoints are allowed. The Left and Right both have a vested interest in war, for one thing because American investors are imbued with the notion that war equals prosperity, but the Left in part because it has absurdly staked out the narrative of a devious Russian state that unduly influences US politics to the point that your vote is no longer safe until they are subdued, and the Right because much of this side of the spectrum is home to the Neocons, who firmly believe that without war, the US dollar will plummet and Israel will collapse, or to the machistas who think that the US must always win by military might, even though it never does. As for the Libertarians, they think Aleppo is probably a shopping centre in Pennsylvania (it’s true. See this). War is like a geopolitical football game and it is de rigueur to root for the home team – ie, the US and their cheerleaders Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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