supposedly control of oil and gas and especially the ability to have gas pipelines go through Syria to Europe to compete with Russian interests as long as Assad is in power that is not an option.

That's certainly interesting but I'm not exactly sure why I should just take her word, either.  Most of it was very subjective and had to do with "the people she talked to" on one of her four trips there.

It also felt kind of odd that she seemed to be going out of her way to make Russia look like the white knight of the situation.

I got the impression that she had an agenda of her own.

The "corporate media is lying about everything" seemed to turn into "their sources are bad".  She then talked about how the big media organizations had no direct sources but then she talked about going on a trip there with journalists from those organizations?  Wouldn't they be as credible as her?  She also never gave a real reason as to why every media outlet would lie.

I dunno.  It was interesting, like I said, but it's not like I'm just going to assume that her version is gospel.

The general American public is really ignorant about the world politics and antics of USA in the world. They ive in this bubble and that's mostly why they think USA is the greatest and other non sense like that

Yeah anyone that speaks against USA, the greatest country in history, is a pawn of Russia and will always be wrong no matter what. America always does right and is so righteous that the world cannot even handle its righteousness. The world has been given such a gift in America that it's almost criminal to have such an outstanding and shining country among the filthy countries of the world. All praise the marvellous country wi=hich never errs nor has any faults. No one in their right minds can or should ever criticise America, except american comedians.

People should pay more time to history from 1850-1935, pre-war history is far more important then war-histories because we know war is bad but when will Tv, Movies or education tell us how things esculates into a war in the first place. There is plenty more to it then the information we have been shared that is important these days to know and who bothers to go to seminars to listen to Historians?  i guess it's easier for me to keep track on European History but there should be plenty of stories in US as well, deceit and political gains rarely differ.

Funny you mention those years. Fact: The event that sparked the war in 1898 was the explosion of a US ship in Cuba. The explosion was a mystery but Democrats pushed the Republican government into a war with Spain, on the suspicion that Spain was behind it. Quite a few people think it was an inside job. At the end of the war, the US were successful in a regime change, ending Spain’s hold of the Caribbean. Sounds familiar? The US also took a few of the colonies for themselves, but call ‘em territories.

Well, the easiest tell of who is most involved in the back dealings is in the response. France responded moreso than any other country as they were trying to clean up their mess. The conflict within Syria has far more to do with Russia than the US, but of course the US is involved. Just not at the same level.

Well, you have to remember the audience. VGC is a UK based site with far more European traffic than most game centered forums. It's easy for people to take her for her word as it confirms what they already believe to be true.

Syria has quite a bit of information out there about the ongoing problems and war crimes. I encourage people to look into the Syrian Accountability Project.

Ah.. the West & US interventions
It's nothing new. They have been doing this for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NkjNvwuaU
Obama admitted training ISIS/ISIL...

What he said was not a slip up, Obama was looking down and reading a document.

No way!!