Bashar Al Assad and Vladimir Putin are currently destroying any resistance to them house by house, brick by brick and child by child. Meanwhile, as the mayor of Aleppo has said, the world simply watches. But what can we do?
The fact is that America and we too are terrified of what might happen if we shot a Russian plane out of the skies in the act of dropping bombs. The consequences are too terrible to contemplate. Or are they?
In the Cuba missiles crisis of 1962 President Kennedy warned of dire consequences if they didn't remove those Russian ICBMs pronto. Kruschev blinked first, and the missiles were removed. Would Putin blink first? I don't know. The USA isn't as powerful as it was then, but neither is Russia come to that.
The stakes are as high as they've been since the Cuba crisis. Maybe it's time to see who blinks first, before a new holocaust is perpetrated on the embattled people of Aleppo.
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