PODCAST: Conflict Expansion and Opportunism Within a Lame-Duck Window

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A View from Afar: Conflict Expansion and Opportunism Within a Lame-Duck Window, with Paul G Buchanan and Selwyn Manning.

In this episode of A View From Afar political scientist Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse how conflicts are expanding, arguably with warring sides taking an opportunity to take as much territory, while a ‘Lame-Duck Window’ exists in the United States.

For example;

In Syria, opposition-baked forces have taken Aleppo city and other strategic centres in an attempt to remove Syria’s authoritarian leader Assad. Assad’s forces are resisting on the ground while Russian air forces attacked the opposition force’s positions. Israel announced it may strike Syria government munitions sites in a move to ensure opposition forces do not take possession of such weaponry.

Meanwhile, fighting has intensified on the Ukraine-Russia frontlines after:

  • North Korea deployed a 10,000-strong assistance force to the Kursk region;
  • Outgoing US President Joe Biden authorised Ukraine to fire ATTACM missiles deep into Russia;
  • Ukraine indeed fired ATTACMs into the Russian motherland and has increased its drone attacks on military targets in cities once regarded as safe from attack.
  • Also, and significantly, Russia fired into Dnipro City in Ukraine a hypersonic “experimental” Medium-Range-Ballistic-Missile – and followed up with the biggest barrage of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the conflict began.

So-called “red-lines” have been crossed and all sides appear determined to take as much territory as possible before US President-Elect Donald Trump is sworn into office in January.

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Paul and Selwyn assess what we can expect to witness in the next two months, how other state actors are being drawn into conflict, and what objectives are driving warring sides at flashpoints around the world.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. I hope facts are important to this discussion. So far despite massive amounts of front line video not one showing dead or alive Koreans, at or near the front. Zilch.

  2. ICJ and Amnesty International have concluded that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and Israel has been heavily supported in committing these war crimes by the USA. Right and wrong is seemingly a matter of opinion. In my opinion the actions of Edward Snowden were right and not wrong, and if he was offered safe haven in NZ then we could accept him here, like Mr Skripal.

  3. Hama 2011

    Syrian revolution anthem, “Time For You To Go Bashar”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCS8SsFOBAI

    Hero singer throat cut and voicebox and tongue cut out.

    http://freemuse.org/archives/5054

    The slogans that the demonstrating crowds in Hama have repeated again and again are from a song which was composed by the locally based folk singer Ibrahim Kashoush (also spelled: Khashoch, Qashosh or Qashoush) — a folklore singer who chanted traditional Aradah tunes as protest songs, adding new lyrics he wrote himself to the old wedding and celebration melodies.

    On an evening in late June 2011, Ibrahim’s voice had soared over the crowds on the main square of the city centre of Hama, leading a chorus of thousands of demonstrators singing “Bashar, depart from here”. On Friday 1 July 2011 an even bigger demonstration gathered an estimated 250,000 of the city’s population on the same square.

    Four days later, his body was found dumped in the Assi River (also spelled: Isa River), with a big, open and bloody wound in his neck where his adam’s apple and voice chord had been removed. A clear message to those who dare to raise their voice against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

    “The arc of history may be long, but it bends towards justice” Martin Luther King Jr.

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