Thursday, September 29, 2016
Russia accuses US of siding with 'terrorists' in Syria
The spokesman for the U.S. State Department, John Kirby, said that if Russia, and the United States can't get along in Syria that we might make attacks on Russia. Russia is obviously quite upset at the U.S. right now, and claim that we are are trying to encourage terrorist groups to make attacks on Russia. More tensions are flaring between us, and Russia, it would not take a whole lot more for a war to start between us, and them. A simple misplaced(or intentional) airstrike from either side would do it.
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This is such a mess! I think Russia is really testing out their power in the post Cold War era by backing Assad against the groups the US would like to see in power. It's an interesting dilemma for us and for the international community. In reality, Syria could use for an international group to just take over, oust Assad, suppress the terrorists, rebuild the economby and then hold elections. In fact, it would be more or less what the Allies did in Germany and Japan after WW II. However, getting consensus on something like that is impossible with Russia on the other side, and I'm not sure many in the international community want to take on that kind of project--including us. Here's a question though: some people think that only nations with a certain type of background are capable of representative government instead of dictatorship. If that's true, trying to build an entirely new government in a place like Syria could be a lost cause. What do you think? Is every nation capable of representative government if they're given a start? Or do they have to build up to it themselves?
ReplyDeleteI think that if we get an international group together, and we take control of Syria, and then build a stable economy, and present a few governmental plans to the people have a vote from the people on which one they would like. Of course I also believe that this would cost a lot of money, because it would be a very long term process. Even though it might cost a lot of money initially it might save us from an all out war, and we wouldn't have to dump money indefinitely into a war with ISIS, and Assad. We would probably have to have an active military there for at least a decade, but it could be worth it.
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