What A Friend You Have In Putin
Sad to say that some things never seem to change. Nor do they seem destined to. Those who proclaim undying allegiance to your needs second only to their own will always find others whose blandishments appear at any given moment to be more singularly impressive than your own. In the case of countries claiming support for one another it's always been true that politics makes for strange bedfellows. The reason being of course that whatever happens to be expedient becomes the approved course of action.While the world community is suffering anxiety over the fact that a seemingly unhinged head of state - whose consummate belief in an ordained apocalyptic event avidly desired as a fullfilment of a deity's design - is seeking nuclear armaments the better to advance the end-of-days event, yet can find support from other heads of state confounds intelligence. Yet there it is; North Korea (yet another mental basket-case for a ruler) and Venezuela (oil-rich soul-brother) and China (just signed an energy deal with Iran) and Russia (selling arms and know-how to Iran) find this big bed very comfortable.
Israel has made formal overtures to both China and Russia for reassurance that they will do nothing to destabilize the delicate position the state is in. Both China and Russia have abstained from joining the other great powers in the United Nations to present a united front in condemning Iran's Ahmadinejad for pursuing the nuclear option against the International Atomic Energy's urgings and denying the IAEA's inspectors access under international nuclear treaties for non-proliferation.
China and Russia, both known for their ability to skirt around issues, one capable of cleverly offering assurances in florid language obscuring true intent, the other generally offering assurances in blatant disagreement with their true intent are committed to pursuing their own agendas and do so with great diligence, opinion of other world leaders be damned.
Just as Russia, during the 19th century in competition with England in empire building throughout the near and far East, assured it had no such aspirations while launching brutal military raids in Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran and India, it now assures Israel of its support in that country's constant strife with its neighbours eager to turn the state into a pile of ashes dedicated to Allah.
It will prove interesting to hear how Vladimir Putin will explain to Israel's embattled political elite that one of the reasons the Israeli military may have found itself confounded time and again by the jihadist forces of Hezbollah this past summer was that the terrorists were being supported, surprisingly, not only by Syria and Iran, but also by Russian agents of the state. It would appear that Russia has been tracking IDF movements from Syrian-based listening posts.
Russia, it would seem from a recent Channel w report ou of Israel, has sold advanced weapons to Syria and Iran to be forwarded on to Hezbollah, their terrorist proxy militia. Military information too has been passed from Russia to Hezbollah. The better to support you with, my dear friends. The battle that Russia is committed to in fighting its own version of Islamic terror in Chechnya does not appear to alert Russia to the contradiction inherent in its support for Islamists elsewhere, since those activities aren't being directed at them.
When Israel became aware that Russia was selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, and providing nuclear technology to the Islamic republic, along with assisting them in building at least one of their nuclear reactors, Israel's Ehud Olmert visited Vladimir Putin to put Israel's anxiety over this turn of events directly to the source. Upon which Putin exhorted Olmert to believe in Russia's sincere support of the State of Israel.
That Iran's jihad-embracing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joyfully proclaims his intentions at every opportunity to "wipe Israel off the map" and to energetically pursue Iran's uranium enrichment progamme simply does not appear to have registered with China or with Russia, let alone Iran's other supporters. It simply doesn't matter to them. On the other hand, the world is still awaiting direction from the United Nations in taking some kind of initiative to chastise a member-country from threatening another.
But not to worry: we have it on a trustworthy authority, none other than Mr. Ahmadinejad, that Iran's nuclear development activities are truly meant for domestic use. They need the energy source; despite their oil you can never have too much of a good thing in this energy-hungry world. They're intent on stock-piling energy, that's all. They plan to continue selling their oil abroad to any and all takers, and to keep the nuclear-derived energy for their own use. Simple, really.
And the threats against Israel? Just kidding folks.
Labels: Realities
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, January 27, 2007
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