Did somebody say theocracy?
Little by little, the media has begun to notice the deliberately careless slaughter of civilians in Syria by the Russian division of the Iranian armed forces.A theocratic axis consisting of the Iranian twelver Shia cult regime, the Syrian Alawite Ba'athist reality TV aficionado and murderer of 200,000, and the serial poisoner controlled Russia Today Orthodox Church Federation makes the Turkish aspiring dictator, ISIS cheerleader, Hitler enthusiast and recent extorter of the EU look like an amateur.Somehow there is such mass eagerness to accept any criticism of President Obama at face value, that Putina has become the favored opposition and claims made by him, his army of comment trolls or the RT: "Fox News on krokodil" propaganda juggernaut get swallowed and parroted by gangs of mutants, perpetual con-marks in Baghdad, right wing race cults and left wing suicide fetishists alike.
Vladimir Putin, 2014 Time Magazine Person of the Year, has been praised by celebrity imbecile Donald Trump, British Nazi Seance organizer Nick Griffin, famous anti-semitism groupie/Iran TV personality Jeremy Corbyn, and the Ba'ath Party's favorite cosplay kinkster kitten George Galloway.With this clown car coalition of the deranged behind him, and the announcement that the Russian Orthodox Church has declared him god on earth, his holiness, the patron saint of anti-gay violence and the man who brought breadline poverty back to Russia, Vladimir Putin has put his lifelong ambition to ressurrect Russian imperialism in Eastern Europe on hold while he mounts a crusade to support the oppressed, downtrodden and victimized regimes of Iran and Syria. Someone had to stand up for those poor mullahs and despotsRather than being content with his new status as some sort of half-man half-God creature, (I'd have asked the church to make me a centaur instead, but whatever lifts his luggage) Putin has made it his divine mission to defame and debase the President of the United States.This is all one needs to do to be lauded across the globe.The asinine casting of President Obama as arch and cruel by millions of Americans has had all sorts of sad consequences.Creating a western audience for Putinism may prove the worst.
It never ceases to surprise me the rabbit hole of logic that Obama-hatred carries people down.The viral memes presenting a choice between Putin and Obama with questions like "who is stronger leader," "who is better friend to Kurds" and "who is better looking" are hilarious, but indicative of the pervasivenes of the bizarre logic that holds that "if Obama is doing a bad job, Putin must be doing a good job." I don't think Obama is doing a good job in the Middle East, but that has nothing to do with whether Putin is doing a good job or even a good thing.Ask yourself why Putin is there?Does Putin actually care what happens to the Kurds or anyone else?
Putin said he would attack ISIS but he attacked every Sunni fighting against Assad except for ISIS for months.Putin aids and protects the genocidal dictator Assad. Putin has participated in a cynical manipulative move through Assad and clandestine channels to assist ISIS.Putin has taken sides in the sectarian civil war and the power struggle between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. I have no fondness for Saudi Arabia, but the Iranian regime out does the Saudis at theocratic sadism and is universally acknowledged by Iran's neighbors as the biggest threat facing the region.Israel has more Sunni friends than Iran.
Iran attacks Kurds.They depopulate Sunni villages in Iraq and Syria, which exasperates the refugee situation.They are the largest state funder of jihadist terror.When Iran "got rid of" their nuclear materials they sent them to Russia for safe keeping. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they're likely to use it on Bahrain or Israel.Putin has taken it upon himself to intervene in the sectarian conflict on behalf of the Iranian regime.Barack Obama might have a confusing strategy and he may be shamefully silent on the Turkish campaign against the Kurds, but he provides air support for the Peshmerga and YPG, while Putin provides air support for Hezbollah.
Obama has done a lousy job in Iraq and Syria, but he has done one thing absolutely right: he said he will fight ISIS and he is fighting ISIS. Turkish National Islamist President Erdogan declared last summer that Turkey would begin attacking ISIS, and the air strikes rained down on the Kurds instead.When Putin said Russia was joining the fight against ISIS what he meant was they were joining the fight against Syrian rebels and civilians who are not in ISIS.It is a tragic moral failing that President Obama hasn't condemned Turkey's AKP regime and declared absolute support for and partnership with the Kurds.However, none of Barack Obama's failures excuse or validate Vladimir Putin's crimes or lies.
I'll remain opposed to dictatorship, theocracy, terrorism and civilian slaughter no matter how poorly western leaders perform. Russia is a theocratic dictatorship with a vast propaganda operation set on hurting the west with some true, but mostly fabricated or exaggerated claims which sow hysteria and fuel far right and far left maniacs in Europe.
Obama leaves office next January.His replacement is likely to be one of the candidates who have publicly expressed support for the YPG: Hillary Clinton and nearly every Republican candidate.Sheikh Putin, as he is known among some Ayatollah fans in Iraq, will still be the anointed demigod of the Russia Today Orthodox Federation Church. He'll still be terrorizing and molesting his neighbors.He'll still be the partner, mouthpiece, and muscle for the Iranian cult of messianic Shiite rapture.He'll still be the protector and enabler of Assad and Hezbollah.He'll still be the dictator who murders journalists and politicians who criticize him.He'll still be the Russian version of Recep Tayyip Erdogan......with a nuclear arsenal.
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