Monday, August 6, 2012

Putin, Washington & Syria: important negotiations by Putin


We are constantly told that "Russia opposes USA" = "Russia is bad". Putin, in trying to stabilise the mess happening in Syria, may in fact be saving lives. Remember that Egypt was more tolerant before the "Arab Spring" liberated them. Most of the nations that have fallen, with (covert and overt) support from the good old USA/NATO stone faced democratic war machine have fallen in pace with the Muslim Brotherhood, making life a misery for minority groups, including (and sometimes especially for) Christians. See the following articles from Barnabus Fund, who have been keeping an eye on Syria. It is true that minority groups like the Hazara people (see my recent post) need our help, but it seems the UN and Australia constantly (and deliberately) overlook persecuted Christian groups like the South Sudanese (who are being slaughtered), Egyptian Christians and Syrian Christians. Anyway, check these articles from Barnabus Fund and then read on!
Now, from Global Research, here's some more on Syria...

Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation in the Middle East, above all Syria. Here Putin is engaging every imaginable means of preventing a further deterioration of the situation into what easily could become another “world war by miscalculation.” His activities in recent weeks involve active personal diplomacy with Syria’s government as well as the so-called opposition “Syrian National Council.”  It involves intense diplomacy with Erdogan’s Turkey regime. It involves closed door diplomacy with Obama. It involves direct diplomacy with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

Syria itself, contrary to what most western media portray, is a long-standing multi-ethnic and religiously tolerant secular state with an Alawite Muslim President Bashar Al-Assad, married to a Sunni wife. The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam which doesn’t force their women to wear head scarves and are liberal by Sunni standards, especially in the fundamentalist places like Saudi Arabia where women are forbidden to even hold a driver’s license. The overall Syrian population is a diverse mix of Alawites, Druze and Kurds, Sunnis, and Armenian Orthodox Christians. Were the minority regime of Al-Assad to fall, experts estimate that, like in Egypt, the murky Sunni (as in Saudi Arabia) Muslim Brotherhood organization would emerge as the dominant organized political force, something certainly not welcome in Tel Aviv and certainly not in either Russia or China.1

According to an informed assessment by Gajendra Singh, retired Indian diplomat with decades of service in the Middle East and a deep familiarity with the ethnic mix inside Syria, were the minority Alawite regime of Al-Assad to fall, the country would rapidly descend into a bloodbath that would make estimates of 17,000 killed to date a mere prelude. Singh estimates, “A defeat of Assad led regime will lead to slaughter of Alawites, Shias, Christians, even Kurds and Druzes. In all, 20 % of a population of 20 Million.”2 


 Read on... Putin’s Geopolitical Chess Game with Washington in Syria and Eurasia

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