06-07-2014, 06:20 AM
Hi Mo.
So here's a global sit-u-a-chi-on that has me laughing a bit.
France wants to kick Assad's ass -- with the US on the front lines, of course. "Charge in, you yanks!", they scream. "We gotchyer backs in Syria, bros!'. (Obviously, that's the American English translation.)
Meanwhile......Crimea succeeds to Russia, with an oh-so-gentle push from Putin -- because Putin's protecting all the Russian-speaking Ukranians, dontchya know. NATO is aghast, including Mr. Hollande.
But....Hold up a damned minute here.......who's Mr. Assad's number one friend til the end. Mr. Putin, right? That's right.
And, wait just a sec... isn't it France that has a tiny bit of a problem with the G7 sanctions against Russia -- the ones that Obama and Cameron are spear-heading. You know; being that the French have billions USD$$ pending in warship carrier exports to Russia (can't say I blame the French there, from a business perspective).
At the same time.......let's pretend that Syria isn't the number one terrorist training camp in the world and attracting an alarming number of westerners. And, let's also pretend that the majority of the western trainees aren't British (with whom the French are aligned in the EU, NATO, and G7).
Eff' that. Let's not pretend. Let's be straight up.
It's a mad mad world!
Not singling out the French here -- I'm not one who thinks that money/economy doesn't matter and that capitalism is bad. And, there's some equally funny hypocritical shit (only because it's better to laugh than cry) going on with the US, the collective EU, Austraila....on many fronts. IMO.
I'm just kicking off this thread with one of the many global derps in play at the moment, as I see it.
P.s. I find Angela Merkel an interesting woman and leader to watch.
So here's a global sit-u-a-chi-on that has me laughing a bit.
France wants to kick Assad's ass -- with the US on the front lines, of course. "Charge in, you yanks!", they scream. "We gotchyer backs in Syria, bros!'. (Obviously, that's the American English translation.)
Meanwhile......Crimea succeeds to Russia, with an oh-so-gentle push from Putin -- because Putin's protecting all the Russian-speaking Ukranians, dontchya know. NATO is aghast, including Mr. Hollande.
But....Hold up a damned minute here.......who's Mr. Assad's number one friend til the end. Mr. Putin, right? That's right.
And, wait just a sec... isn't it France that has a tiny bit of a problem with the G7 sanctions against Russia -- the ones that Obama and Cameron are spear-heading. You know; being that the French have billions USD$$ pending in warship carrier exports to Russia (can't say I blame the French there, from a business perspective).
At the same time.......let's pretend that Syria isn't the number one terrorist training camp in the world and attracting an alarming number of westerners. And, let's also pretend that the majority of the western trainees aren't British (with whom the French are aligned in the EU, NATO, and G7).
Eff' that. Let's not pretend. Let's be straight up.
It's a mad mad world!
Not singling out the French here -- I'm not one who thinks that money/economy doesn't matter and that capitalism is bad. And, there's some equally funny hypocritical shit (only because it's better to laugh than cry) going on with the US, the collective EU, Austraila....on many fronts. IMO.
I'm just kicking off this thread with one of the many global derps in play at the moment, as I see it.
P.s. I find Angela Merkel an interesting woman and leader to watch.