What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I’ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way:
“It’s a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell as avoiding a conflict with NATO ally Turkey. Turkey has the guarantee – by the Russians – that the Syrian Army will be in control of the Turkish-Syrian border. Russia prevents a war escalation and keeps the Russia-Iran-Turkey peace process alive. And Syria will eventually regain control of the entire northeast.”
Syria may be the biggest defeat for the CIA since Vietnam.Consortium News
Yet that hardly begins to tell the whole story.
Allow me to briefly sketch in broad historical strokes how we got here....
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500,000 lives lost and its time for the armchair quarterback parade. Better get those celebrations underway, before the vipers in the snake pit claim more lives.
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