A Shot In The Arm

HERE WE GO AGAIN, the old imperialistic proxy war arm your puppet state ally routine. Just like world war one, and other wars, before and since. just like viet nam. Russia arms serbia, germany arms asutrai-hungary. United states arms south vietnam, russia and china arm noth vietnam. This eliminates the need for powerful nations to spill their own blood, while advancing their imperial aims, and provides a shot in the arm for domestic arms manufacturers to boot.

This time the proxy war is in the ancient land of syria, where damascus, the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, is being ripped to shreds, along with the rest of the country, in a brutal civil war, which burst into flame in the aftermath of the revolutionary , liberating spirit of the "arab spring" a couple of years ago.

The European Union, that badly organized consortium of twenty seven  countries bound together by a desire to compete ecomonically with china, japan, and the U.S.,which seems to be approaching bankruptcy nearly as rapidly as the U.S., has decided to supply weapons to the freedom fighting rebels in syria. Nothing like a healthy arms industry to prop up a disintegrating currency. Just ask  america.

And, not quite coincidentally, the Soviet Union, or rather Russia, has indicated an intention of sending anti aircraft long range missiles to the hard to kill Assad government in syria, which doesn't seem to have gotten the memo that its time is finished. Amazingly, none of the weapons soon to be supplied by all these european busy bodies has any offensive capability or intent of any kind! Never.

How long until the U.S of A. joins the hit parade, and starts wheeling and dealing? For all we know, its already happened. The obama administration is proving to be somewhat less than a model of transparent behavior. And don't look now, but israel, never one to miss an opportunity for a bit of saber rattling, warns that if the russian arms transfer actually takes place, they will do something about it. The frightening thing about this is that, sometimes, israel is true to its old testament eye for an eye word.