The authors of the paper note that: “We are unable to measure facial cover use in the community (i.e. I’m not even sure what that means, but I take it that it means this is something close to a peer-reviewed paper, without being a peer-reviewed paper. I only looked at the first one, “Community Use of Face Masks and COVID-19”, which was a “Fast Track Ahead of Print Version of a peer-reviewed manuscript”.
Peter doesn’t himself present evidence of the importance of community use of face masks, only links to a couple of articles. If this was the highwater mark, then maybe it’s no bad thing that American hegemony is ebbing away or that NATO could be falling apart. Gaddafi was brutal too: “America and its European allies were able to overthrow a brutal dictator.” This was, according to Aris, the highwater mark of American hegemony, Gaddafi being sodomized by a National Transition Council soldier’s bayonet then shot to death by several soldiers as he pleaded for his life. Note in the passage quoted above that Western airstrikes are not criticized, but Russian airstrikes are brutal. (And Putin is bad, but he was not so much to blame in this situation.) Again, Putin was essentially the defensive player, trying to preserve the main Russian naval base in the face of the aggressive regime-changing tactics of the US president, but NATO war hawks made it seem like Bad Vlad was the aggressor. Obama could not kick the Russians out and turn it into a NATO naval base, but broke Ukraine up trying. In Ukraine the prize was the Russian naval base at Sevastopol.
Obama could not remove Assad and deprive Russia of its base, but broke the country up trying. Russia was essentially a defensive player in Syria, defending its only naval base on the Mediterranean. Obama’s breakup of Syria oddly anticipated his breakup of Ukraine. But when we get to the Russian Federation’s support of the Assad regime, the tone suddenly becomes personalized and Aris starts fingerpointing: Bad Vlad “Putin’s refusal to countenance Western airstrikes against the Syrian government, and to Russia’s own, brutal and ” so far ” successful aerial intervention to prop up Assad’s rule”. It had nothing to do with President Barack “Hopey Changey” Obama or his Secretary of State, “Crooked” Hillary Clinton. Note that according to Aris NATO was responsible for the so-called humanitarian intervention in Libya.
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