Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Background behind the news

I posted this before, but it gives the messy background on what is happening in Syria. From StrategyPage:


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What is real, and how to spin a story: Take one:

GetReligion, a blog that covers how the press covers religion,  covers the WaPo obituary on that "austere religious leader" killed by a US raid.

the bad news? ISIS is moving into Nigeria and sending experts to help the local terrorists do terror more efficiently. They also discuss the various Islamic terror groups, who by the way kill a lot of "moderate" Muslims, especially now that ethnic cleansing has chased the Christians from the north.

and note that part about why the US (under President Obama) hesitated to send aid to help the government fight the bad guys: Because most of the stuff was stolen/diverted.

more HERE.

Sigh.

And I had to laugh at this, because it hints to one reason Trumpieboy is letting Russia (and Turkey) sort it out in Syria:
The effort to explore for oil in the Moslem north is also crippled by the bad reputation Nigeria has when it comes to foreign oil companies. This is one of the reasons for turning to Russia to help out with oil production. That could be interesting because the Russians tend to be pretty ruthless with problems like oil theft and armed gangs. The Russians hire mercenaries and order them to shoot back and keep shooting.
the background of using US troops to keep the oil safe in Syria is because ISIS had taken it over and had sold it (mainly to Assad and to Turkey) to get money to hire/pay their terror recruits.

Story here.

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