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A Game of Thrones – Putin style
ROLENE MARKS
Liberally illustrated by equally quick cartoonists, Rolene’s October 1 blog deals with the irony of Russia’s Tuesday airstrikes which were not aimed at Isis, but rather at civilian enemies of the Syrian regime.
“After several years of civil war, hundreds of thousands of deaths and a refugee crisis that is engulfing Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to send troops to Syria and airstrikes have begun on rebel strongholds. Putin is putin’ (pun intended) his support firmly behind Syria’s Assad regime. Well, birds of a tyrannical feather do flock together…” she writes.
“As news of the civilian casualty count came in, I wondered how many cries of condemnation we would hear from human rights activists or the UN, EU and other general practitioners of holier-than-thouism. Of course the UN is currently preoccupied with speeches from world leaders to the General Assembly which have offered such pearls of moronic wisdom – such as Mugabe’s “we are not gay” statement and Iran’s Rouhani and his ever predictable threats to Israel and for good measure, a token stab at the US for ‘its unwarranted support of the Zionist regime.’
“All delivered with his customary Cheshire cat grin, so as to avoid alarming the nice folk at the UN, Abbas has, in essence, flung the Oslo Agreements out the window and all eyes will be on Bibi for his rebuttal. At the EU, you can hear the chirping of crickets.”
France, she writes, has been the only power to investigate Assad for crimes against humanity.
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