AFP Writes: Russian warships cross Bosphorus, en route to Syria

 

Three Russian warships crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait Thursday en route to the eastern Mediterranean, near the Syrian coast, amid concern in the region over potential US-led strikes in response to the Damascus regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons.

Russia, a key ally of Damascus, has kept a constant presence of around four warships in the eastern Mediterranean in the Syrian crisis, rotating them every few months.

Moscow vehemently opposes the US-led plans for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in response to the chemical attack outside Damascus last month.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that any US Congress approval for a military strike against Syria without UN consensus would represent an “aggression”.

The Obama administration is hell bent on launching a strike against Syria for what they claim to be a chemical attack on their own people. Of course there is no concrete evidence to the fact, but that is not a deterrent enough for the blood hungry Industrial Military Complex.

Even though popular American opinion is overwhelmingly against attacking Syria, it looks as if this Administration will stop at nothing to settle some sort of a score or to settle some crazy perception that American should stand firm by its principals.  I have no idea what principals those are.

With Russian ships racing to support Syria and with Iran basically saying that they will go to war with the US if Syria is attacked, the situation is getting out of control.  If history teaches us anything is that in “powder keg” times such as these, even a small incident can set in motion a chain of events that has the potential to lead us into a large scale conflict.  

Why is this important from an economic perspective? If some sort of war is set off and with Russia/Iran involved,  it can engulf the whole region. That would have an immediate impact on anything and everything from interest rates to oil prices and from the stock market to the job market.

America has enough structural and fiscal problems to keep it busy for decades and as such it should concentrate on domestic issues instead of trying to go to war against Syria. Let’s just hope that nothing happens and cooler heads prevail. 

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