In the movie “Heartbreak Ridge”, Clint Eastwood played a Marine sergeant and in the most famous line spoken in that flick, he referred to a situation as being “a clusterfuck”. Thus, a new way to say Fuck was born, and it’s meaning was clear.
Today we have Syria. At least five different factions are engaged in the effort to topple the Assad dictatorship. All of them are Sunni Muslims including the Kurds. An exception is the Druze, whose religion was based originally on Islam. Added to the mix are ISIS and a bunch of other Jihadist splinter groups. Iran was working with Russia and Assad to smuggle munitions across the border to Lebanon, to Hezbollah.
Russia has two military bases in Syria, one of them being a warm water port, and Russia wants to keep them as there are no warm water ports in Russia, they all freeze solid in winter. So Russia wants to maintain a presence in Syria even tho they helped bomb the rebels. Iran is Shiite and helped Assad kill rebels. Turkey bombed and killed Kurds.
The USA gave the rebels assistance and opposed Assad, Russia and Iran, so how will they treat the US when the rebels take over Syria?
That depends. Once Assad’s government collapses, then they’ll start fighting each other to see who gets to be the new dictator, and meanwhile the Kurds and Druze will be carving off new states from Syria for themselves. There’s at least a million Druze there and about 2.5 million Kurds. How will that work out if the most powerful faction says NO?
Syria borders on both Lebanon and Israel. Some of these factions have violent ambitions toward Israel, so the Israelis are putting more troops on their border with Syria. Just in case.
If this mess isn’t a true clusterfuck, then I don’t know what is.