At Putin's behest, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a withdrawal of American troops from Syria.
That's now cleared the path for Russia to exert control over Damascus, the Middle East, indeed the world itself, because Moscow has at last secured the jewel in its neo-Soviet empirea strip of chaotic desert in northeastern Syria.
Think tank functionaries and journalists and right-wing radio hosts were all united in furious opposition to Trump's Russia-influenced absconding from Syria.
The Syria page of Washington's mad-lib book yields all the usual buzzwords: "Adversaries," "Strength," "Surrender."
So far as Putin goes, he isn't trying to flip Syria behind some newly hung Iron Curtain.
His aim is a return to the pre-civil war status quo: a friendly Assad regime, a safe Russian naval base in Tartus, and an end to jihadist-fueled instability across Syria.
Shouldn't our poor track record in Afghanistan and Iraq inform our thinking in Syria and lead us to limit the mission? Absolutely not, according to the war pamphleteers, who insist we must blunt a Russia/Iran/Assad axis, which isn't much of an axis to begin with and which amounts to taking sides in a Muslim sectarian struggle that isn't any of our business.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washington-melts-down-over-trumps-syria-withdrawal/
That's now cleared the path for Russia to exert control over Damascus, the Middle East, indeed the world itself, because Moscow has at last secured the jewel in its neo-Soviet empirea strip of chaotic desert in northeastern Syria.
Think tank functionaries and journalists and right-wing radio hosts were all united in furious opposition to Trump's Russia-influenced absconding from Syria.
The Syria page of Washington's mad-lib book yields all the usual buzzwords: "Adversaries," "Strength," "Surrender."
So far as Putin goes, he isn't trying to flip Syria behind some newly hung Iron Curtain.
His aim is a return to the pre-civil war status quo: a friendly Assad regime, a safe Russian naval base in Tartus, and an end to jihadist-fueled instability across Syria.
Shouldn't our poor track record in Afghanistan and Iraq inform our thinking in Syria and lead us to limit the mission? Absolutely not, according to the war pamphleteers, who insist we must blunt a Russia/Iran/Assad axis, which isn't much of an axis to begin with and which amounts to taking sides in a Muslim sectarian struggle that isn't any of our business.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washington-melts-down-over-trumps-syria-withdrawal/
No comments:
Post a Comment