The past week in the Prozac Nation has seen its share of strange happenings. Nazis complaining of censorship and persecution; Manospherians defending divorce and domestic violence against Christians; and citizens running terrified from people in clown suits. Always in America; something new and novel, but never predictable.
Add into the mix the depressing 2016 Elections and Obama's humiliating defeat in the Middle East; and what we men and women of goodwill really need for a weekend's entertainment recommendation is a healthy dose of brain bleach. Watching good men doing good things; with loveable heroines, plenty of adventure, and great and engaging story. So we have found such a choice: a little-known, but exceptionally good film serial from 1944 called The Great Alaskan Mystery.
The Great Alaskan Mystery was produced by Universal Studios in 13 chapters. It is a remarkable production in that it has a non-formula plot, well-drawn characters, a few back-stories, and is free from the repetitiveness that hampers many serials. What makes it unique is the back-story, which we will describe presently, which causes the plot to be driven more by the villains' intrigues than anything else. Such is the way things often work in real life.
The story's hero is Jim Hudson, recently discharged from the Marine Corps after being wounded and decorated for valor at Guadalcanal. Hudson returns home to Seattle (yes, that city once produced war heroes) to marry his sweetheart (yes, that city once had heterosexuals living there). Hudson's girlfriend is a vivacious brunette named Ruth Miller. Her widowed father, who's had to raise her alone is a Professor of Physics who is working on a secret machine he calls the Paratron. The Paratron is designed to carry physical objects via light-waves.
Dr. Miller is searching for a particular radioactive ore strong enough to make the Paratron work. But unbeknownst to him, his assistant, Dr. Hauss, is a Gestapo agent who has been passing on Miller's to the Nazis. The Nazis are working on a project of their own from these copies---and have discovered its secret. However, the ore required to make the Paratron work is a rare element found only in Alaska. So they enlist some traitors and Nazi sympathizers in Alaska to steal the ore from a mine owned by Hudson's father and smuggle it to Germany.
After Hudson foils an attempt to steal the Paratron, he suggests that the Millers accompany him to his father's place in Alaska where Dr. Miller can work on the Paratron unmolested. The Nazis believe that they have discovered the ore and their criminal activities---and so the fun begins. The story unfolds as a mystery as well as an adventure, as Hudson sets out to discover who is after the Paratron and why.
Hudson's character is a great study in the type of American men who typified the 1940s. As we might expect from a 1940s ex-Marine who survived Guadalcanal, Hudson is fearless, determined, and with a strong sense of duty and the ability to think on his feet. His toughness is softened and his good character really brought out by his love interest, Ruth. Ruth's character is very typical of an average American girl of the 1940s. Always supportive and standing by her man, in one episode she risks her life to search for missing Hudson during an Alaska blizzard.
The Great Alaskan Mystery is 4 1/2 hours of unalloyed enjoyment guaranteed to cleanse the toxic effects of exposure to postmodernist cultural rot from the human brain (a use for the Paratron that its inventors hadn't foreseen). The series is available free on Youtube and Dailymotion, although the DVD has a better quality download. As an interesting side note, the actor who played Jim Hudson was more famous in his 'Golden Years' portraying the equally heroic and duty-bound town doctor on television's Gunsmoke.
Though probably few outside of the Alt-Right have heard of him, an anonymous Internet figure calling himself Ricky Vaughan has been at the center of a new wave of outrage. Vaughn was banned from Twitter two days ago, despite having a considerable following. Twitter has not issued any other statement other than Vaughn violated their posting policy. The Daily Caller, a shady Beltway-based site run by operatives of News Corp and former Bush Administration officials, has been the only Mainstream News outlet giving the story much coverage. Even they state that Vaughan was known for publishing White Nationalist and anti-Semitic articles.
In January 2016, Vaughn was interviewed by Radix, and said a number of noteworthy things. When asked how he came to embrace Alt-Right ideology, Vaughn replied:
"From there, I started consuming the anti-feminist blogs of the Manosphere...From there, around the time of the Trayvon Incident, I got linked to from MPC by Chateau Heartiste. At the time I realized what a con-job the media was playing on all of us, and how the mainstream race propaganda was all b------t. From there I began to explore the different facets of Cultural Marxism, the Jewish role in subversion, etc."
Vaughn also noted on his Reddit account: "I love the Manosphere. I have read their work for years." and "I like the Weimerica Podcast, and for blogs I like Vox Populi and Anonymous Conservative; Steve Sailer's blog."
Well, well, well. Does anyone still wish to argue that the Red Pill/Game Cult is not having a social impact? Vaughn had 60,000 followers on Twitter---essentially repeating Game Cult propaganda under the guise of political discourse. And true to his Red Pill Awareness, Vaughn tells Radix that he has some definite views on domestic issues:
"I would like to introduce racial consciousness into the mix so that patriotic American conservatives don't feel bad about creating all-white communities and shunning mixed-marriage and that sort of thing, because we need racial separation in order to maintain our unique culture and heritage."
And equally in character, he despises traditional values-based Conservatism:
"One of the problems with mainline Conservatism is undoubtedly their consultants. These include mostly lesbians or closeted homosexuals who signed up for Vine and are thus able to fool aging hedge-fund managers into thinking they are media magicians...Imagine a fat, low-testosterone Boomer grinning and rubbing his hands together at the thought of making a video 'go viral'. These idiots are the sea-lampreys of the political biosphere.
"We are setting the tone ideologically and forcing mainstream Conservatives to respond...now there is also the Neocohenservative faction...they are the ones screaming about Nazis, about mapping the topology of the Alt-Right, and how terrible Nativism is... others are seeing this growing divide between Globalism and Nationalism; and the good people are siding with Nationalism while the Shabbos goyim shills and the Neocohens are siding with the Globalists."
Following the Twitter ban, Vaughn was quick to claim censorship along with a chorus of Manosphere camp-followers like Chateau Heartiste and Matt Forney, who proclaimed that the purge has begun! This in spite of the fact that Vaughn is still active on Facebook, Reddit, MPC, Youtube, and elsewhere; and mulling launching his own website. All of these egomaniacs believe themselves the next target of Twitter's silencing of the opposition; and Forney especially took great pains to remind his followers that more of their donations would be required, should that event come to pass.
The Manosphere is pushing a campaign to reactivate Vaughn's Twitter account, but a quick search on Google reveals that the blog most aggressively promoting Vaughn's reinstatement is one called The Daily Stormer. This site's header proclaims itself "The World's #1 Alt-Right Website" next to a picture of Adolf Hitler. The site was founded by Andrew Anglin, formerly of the Total Fascism blog. Anglin---who is not banned from Twitter---is promoting a hashtag on Twitter as sort of a petition to bring back Vaughn's account. So much for censorship. But Anglin still wrote yesterday: "One thing's for sure: this is the beginning of a purge. You're getting ethnically cleansed from Twitter because the Jews have demanded it."
As for Anglin himself, he too is an avid follower of the Manosphere. A self-described MGTOW who has written several articles on the inferiority of women, he is also admitted reader of Game Cult blogger, Vox Day.
So has a purge really begun? Of course not. Vaughn, Anglin, and the Game Cult have persecution complexes along with all their other neuroses. The threats to Freedom of Speech are real: the NSA operating gangs like The Equation Group to block access to alternative news; Obama's repeal of the Anti-Propaganda Act; Wall Street robber barons like George Soros and Rupert Murdoch monopolizing the media---these things actually do threaten free speech.
And just as dangerous are the activities of religious cultists in the media. The Game Cult, the Moonies, the Scientologists, the Satanists, and the Wahhabis---these people need to be called out and exposed. They, and certainly not the Jews, are threats to freedom anywhere they gain power or influence.
The Manosphere's Red Pill/Game Cult rarely has anything positive to say about marriage. In fact, they generally have a lot more to say about divorce. That subject spawned not one, but two articles from prominent Game leaders today. Both again try to demonstrate that their doctrines on divorce are Biblically justified.
The Game philosophy towards divorce has a double-standard, like everything else about which they write. They don't believe in complimentary gender polarity nor do they believe in female spiritual equality. Divorce is never justified under any circumstances, according to them, if the woman seeks it. On the other hand, they encourage husbands to employ Dread Game, a type of psychological abuse by which wives stay committed through fear of their husbands. Fear of loss factors into this: with the Gamer husband free to divorce under nearly any circumstances. Female expendability and culpability are central to Game thinking on any subject.
Dalrock, one of the bloggers of the Game Cult, penned an article attacking the ministry of Joel and Kathy Davisson. According to the Davisson website, Joel Davisson is pastor of a non-denominational Protestant Church, and the couple experienced serious marital difficulties a few years ago. Their ministry today is focused on Christian marriage counseling.
True to form, Dalrock begins by asserting that every denomination other than Game is under the control of feminist women. "I've written previously about the modern Christian cross-dressing view of marriage where wives are in absolute headship and regularly need to give husbands wake-up calls to establish their authority. While wives punishing disobedient husbands is a modern Christian fetish, there is a divergence of opinion on how wives should make their husbands submit...Modern Christians love this method {divorce, or the threat of it} as well; if you've seen the cherished movie 'Fireproof' you will recall that the husband to heel (and to God) by filing for divorce and taking up with a new man."
As far as modern Christians go, Pope Francis spoke against these things less than a week ago. But the Gamers will ignore the Pope and attack Reverend Davisson instead. Dalrock finds especially troubling Davisson's alleged 'reworking' of Malachi ii:16, in which the prophet denounces Hebrew men for frivolous divorce. He says:
"What is so diabolically brilliant about this new Feminist meaning of Malachi ii:16 is that they have twisted the passage from a condemnation of male divorce theft to a blessing of female divorce theft...It is this new form of divorce theft/treachery that modern Christians want to condone, and this is why Malachi ii:16 must be twisted to condone divorce as long as the wife is the one committing it."
Dalrock accuses the Davissons of promoting this viewpoint, based on what they said here:
"We have wrongly lifted three words out of context and as a result, the entire emphasis of the passage has been changed. As we have already pointed out, the pressure often falls on suffering women to 'buck up' instead of being placed upon men to treat their wives right as God intended...The message of Malachi ii is this: 'Men, obey the Word. Quit dealing treacherously with your wives. Why? Because if you don't you're going to end up divorced and God hates divorce."
In other words, Dalrock's real issue here is that women should willingly submit to suffering at the hands of their husbands and being treated unjustly and treacherously. Dalrock admits as much when he complains: "Joel and Kathy explain that the real point of Malachi ii:16 is misapplied when it is used to tell unhappy wives that they should honor their marriage vows." So suffering from injustice and treachery is no justification for a wife to react? Once again, this article is just another Gamer justification for Domestic Violence and an unjust criticism of a ministry which claims to have saved several marriages.
The second post was authored by Roosh Valizadeh, on the blog Return of Kings. Valizdeh is another long-standing Game Cult icon who's advocated such Christian positions as legalizing rape.
Valizdeh---who has also claimed that promiscuous male sexuality is a spiritually elevating practice---published today an exegesis on a parable of the prophet Ezekiel's found in Ezekiel xxiii. Now Christian theologians for centuries have understood this passage to be a parable explaining how Jewish spiritual infidelity brought God's punishment upon them. But Valizdeh has the striking revelation that the passage is somehow central to understanding feminine desires for divorce.
"This was made most vividly clear" he pontificates, "with the story of the Oholah and Oholibah sisters in Ezekiel xxiii, which uses a metaphor to describe the Jews whoring themselves out to other gods. Besides the changing of a few details, it's a tale that rings eerily familiar to the behavior of modern women."
We should suppose that it would sound familiar to a man whom by his own admission has spent most of his adult life in the company of prostitutes, sluts, and adulteresses. And equally predictably, Valizdeh---a loud partisan of the Alt-Right---demands government action to solve things:
"Considering that Western governments have removed all ramifications for a woman's actions, it's no surprise that we have nations full of Oholahs and Oholibahs. Unlike the American government, God exacted His furious vengeance on them...In modern times, they would get free welfare, while a dozen Beta males form a line in front of their door bearing gifts, love, and commitment."
Yes---perish the thought that a man should ever heal a broken woman with love and commitment; or the Church offer humanitarian aid. That might be a Christian approach; but Valizdeh of course finds fault with the Church and salvation in Game:
"You sure don't see this being taught in Christian churches and Christian countries have the highest divorce rates in the world...It's clear that the churches have been subverted by Feminist thinking. The priests of today are no longer teaching from the Bible but making it up as they go along to appease the promiscuous women who fill their pews and want to be graced with God's goodness even though they don't follow His Word. The teachings I've found in the Bible very closely match my own experiences from sleeping with the most promiscuous of them. Unless there are restraints on their behavior, they will rush into becoming like Oholah and Oholibah, and society will suffer as a result."
Again, there is absolutely no sense of male responsibility here. Valizdeh, like Dalrock, is a male supremacist and a malignant narcissist who is just as bad as the Feminists whom he criticizes.
While it is true that divorce laws are in serious need of reform and familial breakdown is a social crisis, attacking Christian organizations who are fighting the problem is no solution. What the Game Cultists really desire is Radical Feminism and Identity Politics to be applied to men. They fear female sexual power. In the natural order of things, female sexual power is accepting and submitting to a dominant with whom she bonds. It's the 'acceptance' part of the equation that the Gamers want to eliminate: either through government force or cultish fraud.
Last night's US Vice-Presidential debate has stirred some controversy in the Russian press and social media. Mostly because of some remarks made by Mike Pence, who attacked Putin with more vitriol than he did Hilary Clinton.
Referring to Putin as a little man and an international bully, Pence stated that the Russian 'threat' needed to be met with a masculine, broad-shouldered American military response. Such remarks seemed to ruffle the rather effete Senator Kaine, but drew little notice from the more virile Vladimir Putin. The Russians no doubt recall that recent broad-shouldered American military responses have ended up looking like this, or like this,
or like this.
What has the Russian people was Pence's ominous reference to an old Russian proverb which says: "The Russian Bear never dies, but hibernates." This remark has provoked many Russians---from the Kremlin on down---to find another Russian who'd ever heard of this expression.
So finally Sputnik News consulted with Dr. Vladimir Slavkin, a senior Professor of the Russian Language at Moscow University. Dr. Slavkin stated to the press that he had never heard of it either.
"The mere fact that Mr. Pence invented such a text doesn't make it a Russian proverb." the old Academic gravely noted, as though correcting a careless 10 year-old student, "The notion about the Russian Bear is very widespread, but the way he expressed it makes it neither a saying nor a proverb."
In the Prozac Nation---where all of our own proverbs and folklore has been relegated to Politically Correct oblivion as the product of dead white males, Pence can probably be excused for repeating something he'd probably heard at a Neocon fundraising dinner and wrongly attributing it Russian leaders. But though the slip won't make much difference to the average Ameroboob---who's been thoroughly disciplined by the Corporate Media to hate Russia---Pence still should be more careful with his words. Projecting the robust image he hopes to effect abroad won't be seen as credible when others see him as a dunce.
Last night in an obscure Virginia hamlet, the two equally obscure Vice-Presidential candidates spent the evening in their only debate. Mike Pence---best remembered for caving in on Indiana's stand against homosexual 'marriage'---represented Trump. Tim Kaine, representing Clinton, mostly interrupted and distracted during the debate and repeated the Clinton talking-points.
The debate was hosted by Elaine Quijano, who is paid $2.5 million by CBS. CBS, along with Viacom and BET, are owned by National Amusements, Inc. the corporate arm of Wall Street mogul Sumner Redstone. National Amusements in 2016 has donated $367,000 to the Clinton Campaign and has spent nearly $7.5 million on its lobbying firms. The company employs 34 lobbyists in the Beltway, 30 of whom previously held positions in the federal government. We can deduce from this about how slanted the questions would be.
So, about an hour into the debate Ms. Elaine obediently played the Russia-bashing card. She asked the following question: "Currently the city of Aleppo, Syria is under siege. Russian and Syrian forces have been dropping cluster-bombs and incendiaries on civilian populations. Nearly 400,000 have died in Syria. Does the US have an obligation to intervene in a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude?"
Neither candidate challenged the overt media lies presented here, but tried to outdo one another on their hawkishness and which hated Russia worse. The question is a standard talking-point of the US Corporate Media which has no basis in fact to begin with. Aleppo is not being starved out (about 2/3 of the city has been liberated by the Allies); the Allies are not employing these types of weapons on either civilians or combatants; and the casualty figures quoted are skewed by including military casualties on both sides.
The source of these talking-points on Syria---which are never questioned by the Corporate Media---is a London-based CIA cutout called The Syrian Observatory on Human Rights. The director of SOHR is a Syrian expat with a long criminal history in his native land. He has known connections to Al-Nusra (aka Al-Qaeda) which provides SOHR with most of their source material.
If anyone believed that Trump's policy toward Russia would be anything different than Obama/Clinton's, Pence quickly dispelled such illusions. Calling President Putin a 'little man' 'a bully' and 'a thug', Pence even went so far as to accuse Obama of being to lenient with Russia!
"Obama and Clinton promoted a 'reset' with Russia and look what happened." Pence complained. "Their weakness allowed Russia to seize Crimea, Ukraine and they are building a missile base in Syria."
Well, as we know, both Russia and China have remilitarized and begun acting geopolitically---not in response to US weakness, but to continued US treachery. Pence complained about Russia's activities in Ukraine; though not mentioning Obama's intrigues led to the Maidan Uprising. Pence had nothing to say about Obama's duplicity in Libya when he and Putin agreed not to intervene there militarily. When Russia's ally, Qaddafi started winning, Obama ordered NATO airstrikes.
Obama met with Putin at the start of the Syrian Civil War and agreed not to intervene in Syria if Russia would guarantee Syrian chemical weapons were removed. Russia complied, and Obama ordered airstrikes on Syria. The first Syrian ceasefire ended with US-backed rebels regrouping in Turkey and invading Western Syria. The day after the second ceasefire, US warplanes attacked a Syrian Army position.
Pence also complained about Russia's military hegemony overseas: in spite of the fact that Russia has 7 foreign bases compared to America's 800. Kaine proved himself an even bigger ignoramus than Pence, referring repeatedly to Putin as a 'dictator.' Either way, it appears that the Neocons' hopes of continuing the Cold War will survive the Obama Administration.
Aside from that, the debate was unremarkable. The uptight Kaine was continually interrupting, over-talking Pence and trying to divert the discussion to even more irrelevant subjects than those brought up by the hostess. Pence, even by Corporate Media admission 'won' the debate; though neither he nor Kaine actually outlined any specifics. The general consensus among the Corporate Media was that the VP debate wouldn't change the voting demographics much. It appears that little will change after the election either.
The Red Pill Game Cult, which has co-opted much of the Manosphere and making a determined attempt to insinuate itself into American Christendom and Conservatism, has a heavy presence in the so-called Alt-Right. One of the leaders of the cult, who writes under the name of Chateau Heartiste wrote a commentary of sorts on another article from an Alt-Right site. Heartiste proclaimed this article a work of genius for its explanation of why Donald Trump is among the greatest of American heroes:
"Trump is the emblem of the shiv-right revolution, a reification of genuine hope and change. But the man himself is more than a talisman or mystical avatar to propel and strengthen the righteous rebel alliance against the anti-White Empire."
As of evidence of this, Heartiste reproduces in its entirety an article from MPC "which explains in clear, blunt language why Trump deserves to be considered a great man." We are only going to comment on a few excerpts from this intolerably tedious farrago, anyone who cares to may see the full text elsewhere. But it is deeply illustrative of the philosophy and general thought processes of Red Pill political and social thinking. When we see, for example the author's avatar:
we can likely guess where the argument is going. And the preamble gives us a specimen of the intellectual capacity behind it:
"This got long and rambling. Worst of all for MPC, it got sincere. Real as f---, yo. But hell with it: For all its Vox Day-ness, 'SWJs always lie' is damn good stuff. Never apologize. Never surrender. Especially never surrender the narrative."
Following this auspicious beginning, which essentially translates into: 'Don't believe anything unless we tell you to', he goes on to compare The Donald to Washington, Roosevelt, and Reagan. The gist of his argument seems to be that Trump is making some heroic sacrifice by running for president.
"I have not a word of criticism." he fanatically states, "Every scandal faded when he ignored it. The entire media elite on both sides has held him only to a tight race...Be as Alpha as you like, be as silver-tongued and fearless as you like. Any one of is---anybody else---would have long since broken. It's been a year and a half and every day from every side, Trump has been under unremitting, vicious, and downright depraved attack."
This excerpt, along with many in the article like it, show the pedestalization of the Alpha Male in which the Manospherians reflexively engage. It also happens not to be true. Trump has been in the media spotlight for nearly 40 years. The author rhapsodizes further:
"There's no reason in hell to do this. For all the s---lib conspiracy theories, he has the favors, the connections to get out of any supposed debt or legal tangle. He's been good friends with the Clintons, the Bushes, the Kennedys, and a dozen others. His name, his family, his company, his legacy, his health, his pride, his history, his life---both his literal and social life---all thrown on the altar."
To a less obsequious mind, these things might indicate instead that Trump may not quite be the 'outsider' he claims to be. But to this type of infatuation, there's no other explanation because, according to Game, the Alphas are always above reproach in their motives. That is, even when:
"I don't care if he ain't couth. I don't care if he had every wife in Christendom, or missteps ten or ten thousand times, or doesn't hand me everything I want on a silver platter."
Because the mark of the Alpha is not to care about his character---only his image. To this mindset, character counts for nothing---success and power count for everything. We see here what the Game Cult affinity for Trump really amounts to: Trump is a man who knows how to game the system. It's not really about personal sacrifice as Heartiste and the author suggests. They admire Trump because he cares nothing for character and principle and is beating the Elites with their own tactics. That's the whole essence of Red Pill philosophy.
And in the middle of all this hero-worship, the author interjects his vision of the national danger from which Trump is saving us:
"A year and a half ago, every c---swinging deplorable was j------ off to Teddy Cruz or ready to suck it up and vote Jeb. So we could get our amnesty with a side of guacamole before we ran to some f----- hideyhole. Maybe let our kids turn ten before the jigs moved in next to the spics. So that we could huddle down and enjoy the decline. Maybe catch a piece or two of blue-haired vagina while the Romes our fathers built rotted and burned."
The preceding excerpt was as deep into the issues of the day as the author ever got. Heartiste and his disciplines were full of effusive applause for this lofty expression of idealism. Whatever else it is, traditional American idealism it is not.
Twenty years ago, GOP candidate Robert Dole had the slogan "Character Matters." Eight years ago, John McCain stressed expressed 'Substance Over Symbolism'. But the Smart Boys laugh in their sleeves at two decorated war heroes because 'character and substance don't win elections.' Tell that to Ronald Reagan---among others.
Elections come and go but ideals are permanent. The Cult of the Superman; the Worship of Success and Force; the attitude of entitlement that the Red Pills/Alt-Right promote---these things have come and gone too; with disastrous results. They don't belong anywhere in the American political landscape except on the fringes where they were once relegated. Let's hope at this point that 2020 will see better options.
The masks are finally coming off in the Middle East. Yesterday, the Beltway unilaterally suspended Syrian peace talks with Russia---peace talks that Obama has never bothered to honor---and has decided "to pursue contingency plans," according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Secretary of State John Kerry, whose duplicity was exposed earlier this week, was quick to blame the Allies. In September, Kerry had falsely accused the Allies of a suspicious attack on a humanitarian aid convoy the day after Coalition jets accidentally attacked a Syrian Army position in Deir Ezzur---inflicting 200 casualties and permitting an ISIS counter-offensive. Yesterday, a US airstrike destroyed five bridges in Deir Ezzur; which according to Syrian generals allowed ISIS to escape across the first while cutting off the army's pursuit.
John Kirby, spokesman for the State Department nonetheless huffed that "Russia failed to live up to its own commitments...and was also unwilling or unable to ensure Syrian regime forces' adherence to the arrangements to which Moscow had agreed." This, the day after Obama's so-called moderate rebels attacked the city of Hama with over 100 GRAD missiles causing a yet unknown number of civilian casualties.
Kirby also stated that the gender-neutral Pentagon would withdraw its 'commandoes'. Turkish President Erdogan however had already done that after US forces' poltroonery in front of the Turkish Army made the Pentagon an international laughing-stock again.
Along with these crimes came the exposure that the Wahhabi CIA chief was covertly arming the Jihadists. The Allied forces have made significant gains in Aleppo in spite of US interference---it could well be that Obama sees the inevitable doom of his Syria Policy and hopes to shift the problem onto the next Administration.
There are many pundits and writers who suggest that US withdrawal from the Syrian Peace Talks is a prelude to some 'October Surprise' or the escalation of American involvement in the Syrian Civil War. This is doubtful given the history and treacherous character of the Obama Administration. As we've seen in Libya, Ukraine, and the South China Sea, this Administration's policy has been to engage in brinkmanship to the point of actual war; but once their bluff has been called, to slink away leaving their 'partners' in the lurch while they themselves 'pivot' somewhere else.
The more likely scenario is that the Syrian Civil War will disappear in the Corporate Media until January, when Obama's successor is sworn in. Syria by then may have already been fully liberated, leaving Russia, Iran, China, and Turkey the dominant powers in Middle East with America's influence there irreparably damaged.
Thus, this move by the White House most probably amounts to a de facto US surrender in Syria---in a war which was never declared, never legally conducted, and came to absolutely nothing after causing scores of thousands of casualties and costing scores of billions of US tax dollars. A fitting climax to the Obama Legacy which has been marked everywhere by offering hope and change and concluding in a cesspool of chaos, bloodshed, poverty, and corruption.
