I’m wondering if Putin and Obama met privately. Can you imagine what was said? I can.
I think PUtin looked Obama cooly in the eye and said,
PUTIN:Look, you and I both know that Assad had nothing to do with those chemical weapons. The UN is there to investigate his chemical weapons and the night before he releases them on his people? Nonsense. YOU and I both know the rebels got the weapons via the Saudis maybe the CIA who knows, that is not important. FAct is it was not Assad and you must know this.”
OBAMA: I don’t think you’ll be able to convince anyone of this and in fact, public opinion seems to agree that Assad was behind this.
PUTIN: Ok, let’s move on to what we both know is the issue. It’s not the gassing of innocent civilians. I have intelligence that indicates the rebels kidnapped these people the night before and gased them. It was staged.
OBAMA: NO one will believe this, and you can’t prove this to the public.
PUTIN: Perhaps not. You are very good at controlling your media. But let me be clear about this. YOu couldn’t care less about these children being gased, but the fact that they were serves your purpose. Much better than trying to get support for a few Christians being beheaded, churches burned etc. You know the world would not care about that.
OBAMA: (Listening intently)
PUTIN: You and I both know it’s about natural gas, and the Saudis pulling the strings here. Don’t you know that the Saudis offered us plenty if we’d stop our support for Assad? But what do I get in return? I control gas in Europe, why would I want Quatar to compete against me?
OBAMA: I will tell you that whatever means I have, I am committed to seeing Assad overthrown. We can talk all day long about the means. Whatever they are they justify the end for me. We will bomb Assad, and we will support the rebels.
PUTIN: Maybe you will maybe you won’t. You clearly have no support for this. But since you are clear with me, I will be clear with you. If you bomb Syrian airports, air force, communications, etc whatever, I will respond. I will take out one of your ships. You will have 300 American sailors at the bottom of the Mediterranean. I may lose soldiers too, but I am in this fully. You go after Assad, you go after me, and perhaps too the Chinese, and maybe we don’t even need to fire at you. Maybe we look at the US debt that we carry. Maybe we unload some of it. I think you should think twice before doing anything.
OBAMA: I guess we will see.
And Russians are all about Mother Russia. In a different way than we are patriotic. Not to mention Putin is kind of a low level psychopath, like the ones that do extremely well as CEOs.
If we let these idiots bomb Syria, we are all facing WW3. Syrian sites are saying the rebels are plotting some very bad stuff for Israel while they wait for us to do the bombing.
In the dog training world there is a concept called stacking. It means every dog can and will bite under the right stressors, all piled together. Putin is so done with us after Serbia. If this were a first occasion of us being aggressive and really, violating international law, maybe it would walk. But after Serbia, Syria will tip us into the dark side with Putin.