In 1960, before the US elections on November 6 of that year, Fidel Castro was asked which candidate he preferred, Nixon or Kennedy? He replied: “You cannot compare two shoes worn by the same person”.
Kassioun’s last editorial focused on the main dangers threatening Syria, and presented an initial vision of “how do we protect Syria?” What is certain this week is that threats are increasing, and their indicators and warnings are becoming clearer.
Our entire region, and the wider world, are living on the verge of a major escalation and many dangerous possibilities. The direct driver of this situation is the American / “Israeli” behavior primarily towards Palestine, and secondarily towards all the region’s files, especially with the clear transition to adopting systematic terrorism policies represented by successive political assassinations.
Before talking about the new sanctions law and its objectives, it is worth recalling that American sponsorship of the drug trade in South America, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world is proven not only by political facts, but also by the confessions of American officials. Perhaps the most prominent of these is the role of the CIA in the drug trade in Colombia, and financing itself and its dirty operations from that trade. Likewise, under the American occupation in particular, Afghanistan went from producing 5-10% of the global opium to producing 90% of it.
After the disappearance of talk about the so-called “Arab NATO”, which came about with the “normalization” agreements signed by the UAE and Bahrain in 2020, it reemerged through two American reports. One is an interview with the Jordanian king published by CNBC last Friday, June 24, and the second published by American media outlet Wall Street Journal last Sunday, June 26. Since then, there has been a plethora of “analyses” related to the issue in various media outlets.
After the direct Russian military intervention in Syria at the end of 2015, “left theorizations” began to surface, which saw Russia as an “imperialist country” and its intervention in Syria the same as the American intervention there and elsewhere.
On July 30, the “Israeli” website MAKO published a long article in Hebrew entitled: Exactly 51 years ago: when the IDF set a trap for the Russian force sent to the region. The author of the article is well-known Zionist journalist Shay Levi.
Today and yesterday, two important and amusing indicators emerged with regard to the Russian-American summit that is being held today in Geneva.
Organized international aid for the «state» of the Zionist entity has diverse dimensions and forms, and it is difficult to enumerate them all. However, the connection is deep between the continuation of high-income levels and these flows: from charitable aid to government and military aid, all the way to the last phase in which the flow of foreign investment and corporate finance have become main and important factors. The entity’s economic stability is deeply contingent to the US financial system.
During the last four months, since the new administration took office, the US rhetoric has been characterized by an escalation in most major affairs in the international framework, especially those related to the conflict with Russia and China, whether through NATO or the many European files, including Ukraine and the gas pipeline dossiers, and others. This rhetoric is in essence a continuation of the US rhetoric during the Trump era, though some details might differ.
