Posted on 07/11/2018 2:01:05 AM PDT by Cronos
More than seven years after Deraa became the cradle of the Syrian uprising, the city has effectively surrendered to regime forces. Its final days reflected a familiar pattern, where Damascus was able to bring heavier firepower to pummel the armed opposition groups into submission. A negotiated solution then stripped the opposition of heavy weapons, allowed those that wished to stay to “reintegrate” into the Syrian state, and bused those that didn’t north to Idlib, where jihadists, Islamists, and opposition fighters are grouped together.
The recapture of Deraa continues the military momentum achieved since the Russians intervened on the side of the regime. With the ISIS-held elements of the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus cleared in May, and the rebel-held areas of eastern Ghouta retaken the month before, the momentum which had partially stalled has picked up again
Momentum in military campaigns is a difficult thing to stop. With every victory and negotiated settlement that Bashar al-Assad achieves, troops and equipment are freed up to be redeployed elsewhere. But Deraa is not only a symbolic victory but also has potential economic benefits for the cash-strapped Assad regime, as well as for as Lebanon and Jordan.
The Nassib border crossing with Jordan is now back in Damascus’s hands, and there will likely be moves to try to restore the vibrancy of regional land trade routes (possibly including a resurrected Jordan–Syria free trade zone) that existed before Nassib fell to the southern rebel groups. Certainly, Assad’s recent victories have done much to make the main Syrian economic lifeline viable again, ..Assad himself said recently on Russian television that the door to negotiations with the Syrian Kurds is definitely open.
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It must be assumed that when “Rebel” forces surrender, many are put to death on the spot, after all, this is the Arab way.
The Syrians, Iranians, Hizbollah, [North Korea]and Russia have no mercy whatsoever, that is why they won. The West (as usual) was indecisive and as a result, always loses out to tyrants and dictators.
It's one of the five (or so) most disgusting foreign adventures the US has been involved in.
Obama’s War.
Does this mean the “refugees” currently making life in Europe miserable can be sent back?
“bused those that didn’t north to Idlib, where jihadists, Islamists, and opposition fighters are grouped together.”
That way, they are all in one place making it easier to kill them all later.
9 Jul: Zerohedge: Tyler Durden: Secret 2006 US Gov’t Document Reveals Plan To Destabilize Syria Using Extremists, Muslim Brotherhood, Elections
Authored by Brandon Turbeville via ActivistPost.com
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-09/secret-2006-us-govt-document-reveals-plan-destabilize-syria-using-extremists-muslim
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