How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Russia

[Zenaan Harkness]

** How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Russia
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by Paul Goncharoff on Wed, Mar 29, 2017
Editor's Note: This is a truly insightful and entertaining firsthand
account of Russia through the eyes of someone who, like so many of us,
was brought up to loathe the "Russkies". Find a comfortable chair, pour
yourself a drink, and enjoy! As a native New Yorker, brought up in the
1950s and 60s, I damn well knew what those Russkies were; pinkos, spies,
commissars and worse! At public school I regularly had to squat under my
desk while the nuclear attack alarms went off, all the while our
homeroom teacher barked at us to make sure our eyes were closed and our
faces turned away from the windows. All that bother because the
communists were especially intent on turning our school into a
thermonuclear barbeque.





This is a harsh indictment against the USA, assuming true:

** Russian General: US Trying to Destroy Syria's Critical Infrastructure
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by RI Staff on Wed, Mar 29, 2017
Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military's General
Staff said on Tuesday that U.S.-led coalition airstrikes were
intentionally targeting critical infrastructure in Syria — which could
lead to major ecological and humanitarian catastrophes.  According to
General Rudskoi,  [The U.S.-led coalition is] trying to “completely
destroy critical infrastructure in Syria and complicate post-war
reconstruction as much as possible.”



** US Proxies Set Stage for Syria Balkanization
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by Matthew Allen on Wed, Mar 29, 2017
A leading Kurdish politician has confirmed that "the northern Syrian
city of Raqqa is expected to join a decentralized system of government
being set up by Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies once it is freed
from Islamic State," according to Reuters.  Saleh Muslim, the co-chair
of the Syrian Kurdish PYD party, made his comments on the same day that
a U.S.-led operation near Raqqa blocked "any advance by Syrian
government forces from the west". In other words, the U.S. has reserved
Raqqa for its proxies.




** Russian Air Force Achieves New High Score in Al-Qaeda Whack-a-Mole
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by RI Staff on Wed, Mar 29, 2017
Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), "al-Qaeda's latest incarnation in Syria", has
spent the last week dodging Russian and Syrian airstrikes near Hama. It
wasn't supposed to be this way. The coalition of head-choppers had
assembled an army of 10,000 fanatics to storm Hama and turn it into a
"moderate" paradise. But they forgot about "Russian meddling".