subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
You're correct to say that Corbyn has called for ceasefires - but he's only ever asked for things to be done via the UN where Russia exercises a veto (they issued, I think their 13th veto on Syria related matters a few days ago) so this calls are ultimately toothless. He knows they won't do anything but it gives him the cover of plausible deniability, and gives yourself a little nugget to throw around in internet arguments. Try and find something he's said that'd lead to substantative active in Syria and then compare that to his statements about Israel, KSA etc. It's pretty clear what his basic point of view is. The only time he ever got exercised was when Trump bombed an empty airbase.
I was involved in a picket outside the STW conference a few years ago, organised by Syria Solidarity. I remember talking to one guy who was super keen to denounce us as warmongers and I remember a friend asking him what his solution would be. He said "well, all sides should withdraw". Like Russia would just pull out, retire from the field like honest gentleman. I realised then that he didn't actually give a damn about Syrian lives, they didn't even factor into his thinking. It was all about enacting his post-Iraq rage at our establishment. I'm certain this guy would be known to JC and very probably on first name terms, and I'm sure the worldview would be pretty much the same.
I don't want to ruin my evening arguing about this stuff so I'll leave is here. It's a video of Corbyn siding with Russia and Assad in wake of the chemical attacks in Syria in 2013. This was the Ghouta massacre which killed 1400 people and violated Obama's "red lines". Assad did it, yet Corbyn here is happy to parrot Russian propaganda, a classic "useful idiot". The story is the rebels gassed one of their own towns in an attempt to create a "false flag". It's stuff like this that makes him unfit to be PM in my view, not any purported tax increases for the rich.
You clearly know far more about the situation in Syria than me. All the same, I don't see that video as Corbyn parroting Russian propaganda, rather exercising valid caution over Western military intervention. Yes, this perspective stems from Iraq, and other misconceived Western actions in the Middle East, which have been justified by extremely dodgy intelligence. The long-term consequence is that Western intelligence is no longer believed at all, allowing even more unscrupulous agents, such as Putin and Assad, to throw endless bullshit into the pot. Where everyone's motives are suspect, we no longer believe anything anyone says.
But I think the pass this stuff is given by Corbyn, Milne et al and the embattled way that the Corbyn supporters dismiss any criticisms against him as plot (MSM, Blairities, take your pick) lends this stuff legitimacy.
This is part of the same thing. We ignore criticisms as plot because they almost all are that. Endless garbage churned out day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. One, to see if anything sticks. Two, just to create an atmosphere of total mistrust. There's no engagement on policy issues ever. Okay, you have a specific criticism - fair enough - but mostly it's just negativity and bullshit, all towards the single aim of preventing change in the form of a not-particularly-radical socialist government.
Today's front pages are a typical case in point, such as the front page of supposedly left-leaning The Guardian: "Revolt over Brexit policy throws Labour into chaos" and the highlighted op-ed "The question now is who will follow Corbyn". What utter total shite.
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