I really like his work and will continue following him for as many years as I already have, but one of Xenakis' blind spots is that he's always calling other governments liars-- Russia, Syria, China-- while generally believing every word that comes out of the US government.

Here, Pentagon spokesman Dana White says that "Russian bots" are spreading "disinformation", so it must be true. Meanwhile, Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya is a total liar.

From my many years of following politics, practically every sentence that comes out of US government officials-- Congressmen, spokespeople, and so on-- are blatent propaganda!

Remember all of the rhetoric about the Iraq war? How about the Obozocare lies? Or how about the numbers which come from the BLM? What about the NSA spying, or the DNC's "election stealing" behavior in 2016, or the CIA's decades-long history of overthrowing democratic governments to install puppet dicators?

Yes, that's right: overthrowing democratically elected governments is one of the US government's favorite activities, all in-line with the Wolfowitz Doctrine: in Syria, the US is arming any nutjob who can hold a rifle, euphemistically calling them "moderate rebels". It's the CIA's Modus Operandi.

Meanwhile, Russia says that it is helping Assad win back control of Syria to bring stability to that country's democratically-elected leader. And their actions seem to align with that motive. So with regards to the Syrian situation, who am I more apt to believe: Russian officials, or US officials?