French forces said to be training Syria rebels
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/e772452c-...e91116b58.aspx
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I wonder what Syria has to offer the Chinese and the Russians. Protect Syria at the UNSC and park your carrier group in Syrian waters, then you get 30% off Syrian oil and basing rights for the next ten years..etc.
I know Syria is not a big oil producer, but surely they could offer something.
What is it with the French lately getting involved in conflicts? I never thought I would see this happen.Originally Posted by xav
France would be most well placed to do it I think, as it used to be their colony
Turkey slaps sanctions on Syria
By REU TERS
11/30/2011 11:45
Ankara will freeze all financial dealings, block delivery of weapons; UAE announces suspension of flights to Syria.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=247558
But it was French politics which was aimed at reducing the power of the Sunni majority. But of course time's changed.
It's true. With the minor exceptions of two world wars, Indochina, Algeria, Korea, Chad, Gulf War1, Afghanistan, and interventions in Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Haiti, Congo, Ivory Coast, Libya and a few others, we're quite the peaceniks.
It wasn't colonized.
France had a mandate of the League of Nations.
Yes, and it was very somber period of the Syrian history (though the Turkish period was not better). As France didn’t consider Syria as “truly own”, it invested nothing in the local economy and infrastructure and avoided any social reforms. At the same time, the customs barriers were deleted completely and European industrial import strangled any sprouts of local industry.
Practically, Syria knew the period of reforms and limited development only within 20 years from 1966 (victory of left wing of Baath). But later “the Arab socialist revival” degenerated again in the classical stagnant Eastern despotism based on corruption and clannishness.
Syria needn’t offer anything to the Russians. For the Russians it is the choice between “something, even if a little” and “zero”. Victory of the Western puppets or the Islamist retards means complete loss of the existing Russian positions (even if they are limited enough) in this country. The Russian leadership is shocked by the Western neocolonial plunder of Libya after cynical perversion of UN resolutions, these events deeply undermined authority of Medvedev and his pro-Western stooges (who look like the direct successors of Gorbachev-Eltsin scum today), and elections in Russia are near. Nobody will save Assad specially (Syria is far from being “a zone of crucial Russian interests”), but nobody wants look like traitors and identify themselves with the subversive activity of NATO and Arabian monarchies against the Syrian government. Thus, if the Alawite regime still falls and Syria will be plunged in chaos of civil war, the Russian politicians can not be blamed for it by the Russian society.
Fantastic. Truly fantastic. If I close my eyes I can see myself listening to Radio-Moscow International back in the 1980s.
Russian government shocked, Western colonialism, pro-Western stooges, cynical perversion of UN resolutions, subversive NATO activity... Man, those were the days.
These were tough times in Europe too, between WW1 and WW2, cumulating with the World's depression.
And there was no existing industry in Syria to strangle at all.
UN: Syria in civil war, death toll at 4,000
By REU TERS
12/01/2011 17:59
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=247790
There were traditional urban handicrafts working for local needs. They were strangled by European competition. Agriculture was paralyzed by dominance of landlords-absenteeists. The real progress began to show only after agrarian reform of 1966-68, and Syria had about 10% yearly growth of GDP in 1970s.
I’m sincerely glad to enjoy you a little nostalgically. Only now, when re-reading the Soviet proceedings on national-liberation struggle in underdeveloped countries, we begin to realize how wise they were. And how true were all their accusations about the damned imperialists.
Your bourgeois mass-media has “forgotten” about Libya now, but negative processes are far from completion there. Now division of its oil/gas fields by the Western companies, with extension of their rights and privileges, is under way, while the aboriginal population is still stricken by criminality and political murders. Soon Gaddafi with his social subsidies will be recalled as a saint in this mentally deficient country.
Camera, did you watch the Envoyé Special show tonight ?
No, I didn't. Was it about Syria?
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