Posted on 02/04/2016 6:09:30 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
US Secretary of State John Kerry's recent remarks regarding Russia's role in the Syrian conflict shows how Moscow's military aid to Damascus has weakened Washington's position in the Arab country, an American geopolitical analyst says. Kerry on Thursday demanded that Russia halt its bombing campaign in Syria, implicitly blaming Moscow for the collapse in the UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva.
In an interview with Press TV, Eric Draitser said that Kerry's remarks hint at Washington's fading influence in Syria. "What this really tells you is that the United States recognizes just how weak its position has become, its position both at the negotiating table via its Saudi and Qatari and Turkish proxies, and also weak on the battlefield," he said.
Draitser attributed the situation to Russia's aerial campaign in Syria, which was started last September upon a request by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Russia's involvement in the war changed the nature and the tactical situation of the years-long conflict, therefore affecting the ongoing UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva which involves anti-government forces, the analyst noted.
"There is a growing realization among the so-called opposition that they will not win this war. The United States and its allies in NATO and in the [Persian] Gulf - it understands now that the so-called regime change, the removal of the dictator and all of these other phrases, all of this has now been lost to history," he explained. This why Kerry is now urging Russia to stop attacking Daesh positions in Syria, Draitser argued.
However, he warned against being overly optimistic about the possibility of a peaceful end to the conflict as "the situation the so-called opposition is now so critical and that they have been devastated so completely, now we enter into a new phase," where a Turkish invasion of Syria is a looming possibility.
Maybe he needs to bring James Taylor to Moscow.
"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
Not that diplomatic of him.
... it must be true. After all,
this comes straight from the horse’s mouth.
During the past eight years has this Hussein Admin ever accepted BLAME FOR ANYTHING?
Why the long face John?
This article is propaganda from Iran’s Press TV.
Kerry is walking destruction of our country!
LOL
I doubt if it’s any more manipulated
than political articles from the NYT.
Sorry I know how much you love kerry and want to support his efforts to go in grow ISIS.
Winners don’t need peace talks. They have unconditional surrender talks.
The opposition refuses to attend until their cities are not attacked, sieges are broken, and bombing stops. I hope the Russians double down, TU-95s and dumb bombs.
Its the only way to make them surrender.
How do you say Linebacker II in Russian?
“When a nation refuses to use her power in her own interests, that power no longer matters, nor does the nation in question. “
We have no interests in Syria. The sunni wahabbists do. They want Assad out for their own reasons. The Russians do, they like their -only- base outside the area of the former USSR and helping Orthodox Christians.
We are supporting Al Qeida there. The group that brought us 9/11.
BEtter than sending Russian kids in there to tiptoe door to door like we did in Fallujah.
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