The War of Terror on Syria is, seemingly, approaching a clear and visible end, though like everything with the conflict so far, it doesn’t look pretty. Far from the ideal scenario of the Syrian Arab Army liberating every square inch of their civilization-state, an internal partition looks more likely than it ever has before, though it’s still NOT inevitable.
The insertion of hundreds of conventional American troops (Marines) into the battlespace has severely complicated efforts to bring the PYD-YPG ethno-supremacist gang to heel in any post-Daesh scenario, and it’s clear that Washington and Tel Aviv are working hard to see to it that their proxies are ‘rewarded’ for their ‘anti-terrorist’ victories, especially in the event they that successfully defeat the terrorists in Raqqa.
It’s ‘politically inconvenient’ to admit, but what legally amounts to the American invasion of Syria wouldn’t have been possible had it not been for an implicit agreement with Russia, most likely codified during the early-March Antalya meeting between the Russian, American, and Turkish Chiefs of Staff. The same can be said for Turkey’s conventional military involvement in northern Syria through ‘Operation Euphrates Shield’. It’s unclear whether Moscow’s tacit approval of either of these two milestones was coordinated with Damascus, but listening to the Syrian government’s rhetoric about how ‘all uninvited foreign troops are invaders’, the only reasonable conclusion is that there may have been a breakdown in communication.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on MARCH 28, 2017.
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