text: Pushing Al Qaeda to Take on Hezbollah
  http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/26/pushing-al-qaeda-to-take-on-hezbollah/
  
  Arms Airlift to Syria Expands with CIA Help
  www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/arms-airlift-to-syrian-rebels-expands-with-cia-aid.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesworld&partner=rss&emc=rss
  
  Obama's Syrian Horror
  www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/22/obamas-syrian-horror/
  
  There is far too much documentary evidence proving this to claim ignorance this late in the game.
  
  “What does Russia want?”
  
  Mainly to defend itself in the face of a concerted campaign to weaken it as US/EU power wanes as a result of decades of unchecked corruption, unprecedented corporate power, the economic crises resulting from neoliberal “globalization”, and of course, the strain of the incessant, flagrantly-illegal US-led wars of the past 15 years, which includes the avoidable crisis in Ukraine.