I ignore the main S & H theme of it, except to note, in passing, Bannon's use and abuse of it.
Bannon is capitalizing, it seems to me, on identifying his regime's apocalyptic agenda, as DK also notes, with a convenient S & H liberal, escapist, unfalsifiable, cyclical, theory.
My favorite passage here: "Shi'ite and Christian Syrians, as it happens, believe that Assad's fall would mean their massacre, and the evidence of Iraq suggests that they are correct."
Almost all of these Christians are Orthodox Christians. Most Orthodox Christians there emigrated elsewhere in the 19th Century.
Christianity In Syria, Wikipedia
This is one reason why Orthodox Russia has been supporting Assad, the Orthodox Christians that are still left, but only one reason of course. The US has been opposed to Assad, from what little I know, for other reasons altogether.
That is also a side of the story the American media seldom mentions in bashing Putin for supporting Assad, not that he doesn't need, incidentally, to be bashed, but for the other reasons.
Almost all of these Christians are Orthodox Christians. Most Orthodox Christians there emigrated elsewhere in the 19th Century.
Christianity In Syria, Wikipedia
This is one reason why Orthodox Russia has been supporting Assad, the Orthodox Christians that are still left, but only one reason of course. The US has been opposed to Assad, from what little I know, for other reasons altogether.
That is also a side of the story the American media seldom mentions in bashing Putin for supporting Assad, not that he doesn't need, incidentally, to be bashed, but for the other reasons.
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