| Interesting job football read on 07:27 - Feb 27 with 402 views | Plums |
I’m currently working through the podcast of this story. As you say, the Russians have a real problem with windows. It’s a fascinating listen. |  |
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| Interesting job football read on 09:47 - Feb 27 with 314 views | Darth_Koont |
It’s a strange one. A month or so back I thought I should take a deeper look into Syria as I really didn’t know what was going on and stayed out of any discussions on here. It all seemed so murky and unclear, and very much an information war was going on.
So I started with the BBC’s Mayday podcast and nothing was clearer afterwards. It’s obvious that Assad, Russia and a few of their outriders in the media and on social media were/are constructing a narrative. On the other side there was evidence of the same but very sketchily followed up. The Mayday podcast itself was a case in point, asking the questions re: Le Mesurier and the White Helmets but never really pushing them within the context that the UK and the US would be pushing their own narrative somehow. Certainly, the context that we’d recently gone to war in Iraq based on a fake narrative wasn’t even considered, nor that our entire history in the Middle East has been underpinned by secret manoeuvrings of off-the-books people and resources.
Ultimately, the only thing I do know is that power and influence inside Syria and outside Syria are being wielded despite the catastrophic effect on the Syrian people and our own standards of decency and transparency. The real tragedy seems to be that despite that knowledge neither the Syrian people nor us civilians in the West can do a damn thing about it. |  |
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