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One of America's top former generals compared the situation in Syria Tuesday to a historic nuclear disaster, implicitly criticizing the U.S. for allowing it to worsen, and accused Russia's President of trying to re-establish an empire.Ironically, the United States maintains over 800 military bases around the world while occupying Afghanistan since 2001 and carrying out armed operations everywhere from Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria to the borders of Pakistan. Russia's only overseas base is in fact the naval facility mentioned by Petraeus. Petraeus never elaborates on how despite such obvious disparity between Russia and America regarding foreign policy, why Russia is suspected of pursuing "empire" while the US is not then completely guilty of already establishing and fighting desperately to maintain an immense one.
Russian moves in Syria are designed to bolster and hold on to their naval base and airstrip along the Mediterranean coast of Syria, and shore up the al-Assad regime in order to preserve Russian influence in the Middle East, Petraeus said. "I think that what Vladimir Putin would like to do is resurrect the Russian empire," he said.
Comment: All eyes are on the Russian bear to bring us out of the woods. Syriously. It is obvious the Western coalition can't see the forest for the trees. As masters of hubris and perception, lies and deception, fear and insurrection, they become masters of none. So far, Russia has been true to its word and true to its friends, even true to its "not friends." An accomplishment, and hopefully, a global game changer.