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Larchmonter445 on January 11, 2020 · at 4:06 pm EST/EDT
You are correct, Grieved, if we just look at how Idlib has been confronted by Russia and Syria. Putin and Assad have worked military, diplomatic, triad relations (Russia, Turkey, Iran) as well as US, Kurds and UN relations.
For nearly two years we have seen Aerospace and SAA pound al Nusra and the Uyghurs, stop for ceasefire passage of refugees, use Military Police to enforce de-escalation zones, deliver humanitarian aid and medical services while squeezing the sectors free of terrorists.
All tools of power and influence are used to get Syrian control of all its borders and land within them.
This flexible approach undermines Erdogan’s grasp for control, shunts aside US efforts to foil the strategy and gains turf for Syria with minimal losses and costs. Town after town, village after village, high points, roads, highways have come to Assad by way of Putin’s toolkit of strategies and tactics.
The ME is gravitating to Moscow because Putin and Lavrov talk straight, keep their word, and aren’t there to destroy and rule the nations. They came to kill terrorists so they won’t have to fight them in southern Russia or the Central Asia borderlands. They came to help old friends (Syria and Egypt). They came to be a humanitarian service to the true victims of American hegemony, of Western greed and of radical Islamic terrorism.
Iraq now is reaching out to Russia for missile defense weapons like it previously asked and got gunship helicopters when the Iraqis had dire need for them, as ISIS took control of Mosul and ravaged the country, and the US wouldn’t deliver any.
Grieved on January 11, 2020 · at 6:34 pm EST/EDT
LarchmonterYes, that’s all very true and I hadn’t even thought of the ways and means yet, merely the will to achieve it. But Syria provides a perfect example of how the land is cleansed and brought to sovereignty: kilometer by kilometer, day by day, and the children inherit the final product.
China also – as you know, as well as anyone, and better than most – is part of this of course because it is not seeking to enslave nations through debt but to create new wealth.
It’s a new world. The US will be the last to embrace it, perhaps decades from now, but embrace it finally it must. Meanwhile, no one is waiting around. The world has changed, and is moving on. A major tipping point has been crossed.