The “Assad must go” policy implies war with Russia, Iran and HezbollahThe Unz Review
Week Ten of the Russian Intervention in Syria
The Saker
Fort Russ
Assad wants to negotiate with Syrians, not with foreign mercenaries
RT en Français
Translated from French by Tom Winter
Good backgrounder.
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"Assad must go" if the Russians and Iranians do not want to find themselves in a quagmire. Syria must also be partitioned to have a chance at peace. But it appears the Russians and Iranians do not understand or support this. They believe it is in their interests to keep Syria in one piece. They believe in the 'statist world order'.
ReplyDeleteCertainly this means war, with Syrians taking the brunt of the casualties. If the fools in Moscow and Tehran wish to add their own soldiers to the mix, their opponents will be happy to oblige. They will oblige them for years if not decades.
"The Saker - Year Ten of the Russian Intervention in Syria"
The dynamics of the Great Game from the POV of the US is to redraw maps on the basis of neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, not the desires of ethnic groups and popular sovereignty. It's about access to resources, energy in particular and energy transport routes. It's about controlling geostrategically significant territory. It is also about weaken actual or potential enemies.
ReplyDeleteIran, Russia, and China know that they are the US for regime change and partition into smaller states that the US can control.
As a result, Iran, Russia and China are drawing red lines wrt to existing national boundaries and how regimes are determined by appealing to international law and the supremacy of the UN over armed coalitions.
The US is, of course, a example of hypocrisy in this regard in that the northern states engaged in a civil war with the southern states to prevent them from exercising popular sovereignty as states in a federation, which is what states' rights was about based on the constitutional argument of enumerated powers. Then, as now, the reasons were deeply economic in addition to social and political.
And we are seeing the result of trying to erase national boundaries in Europe to create a federation like the USA. How's that going?
I am all for the Kurds having a Kurdistan state, but look at how the borders would have to be redrawn. Turkey would loose the much more territory than Syria, Iraq and Iran, and Turkey has been involved in a civil war with Kurdish rebels for decades. The Turks will never give up that land and are now trying to get the Kurdish lands from Iran, Iraq, and Syria for Turkey.
In other words the US, Russia, China and Iran support endless war. No practical difference to be found between them as the outcome of their policies will result in more death and destruction. The UN falls short of being able to oppose these bloodthirsty powers and their proxies. Indeed, the UN was designed to be nothing more than a nuisance.
ReplyDeleteEurope wanted to erase borders with regard to trade. If they wish to create a federation, they need to start treating each other as if they were members of one country. They're obviously not ready to do that, just as they are unwilling to reconsider their ideologically driven economic policies.
Nuke the human race. The universe only has so much patience.