RSSWhere do the Kurds fit into this? I assume they’re considered to close to the US to be full partners, but will be some sort of silent participants…
This is stunning news, and one of the boldest and daring foreign policy moves any nation has pulled off in a long time. It’s frankly quite inspiring. We’ll see how it all plays out. It certainly sounds like it has a high chance of totally succeeding and securing Assad’s place in power.
Imagine when this is all over…imagine being a young, noble, idealistic, naive young Syrian man, caught up in the synthesized fervor of the ‘Arab Spring,’ taking up your weapon to ‘liberate’ your nation from the ‘evil’ Assad…spending years fighting and bleeding here and there in the desert…
And now you come back, after this is over, to the city you were born. And realize it was all a setup. And you’ve helped totally destroy your country, your city, your neighborhood, your house, your health, your nation’s future…and you were just one of many thousands caught up what amounts to in a giant nasty psy-op.
This has been an extraordinarily ugly scenario in a long line of such from the machinations of the Zio-Eumerican Empire.
If what Mr Whitney here is true, Putin is a master chess player and has a high chance of scoring a stunning victory and being considered a world hero. Obama is meanwhile behind the bed crawling about looking for his underwear.