It would take a lot of skillful maneuvering and luck to regain power to the prewar level.
Wins? Wins what?
Assad has Turkey, the US, and Saudi Arabia all scheming for something. It’s time just to jump partnerships in the region and just exit. Let them do their game by themselves.
A secular strongman in the Middle East? It beats the alternative. Let’s focus on growing our economy.
Let’s see, Obama, Hillary, Kerry and crew have armed , aided and abetted the headchoppers. The best a Trump administration could do is assist in the snuffing out of headchoppers. Perhaps some humanitarian aid once the dust settles. Obama has left a yuge mess over there. Death, ruination, misery, the stock of dealing with O-bung hole.
The focus should have been on Iran. That is the key to taking out Russia and Syria’s power but many of the countries that are upset at what is going on in Syria supported the Iran deal.
It would be quite a trick to salvage something good out of the smoking ruin of a society in Syria, that Obama leaves in his wake (Iraq and Libya as well).
By the time Trump comes into office, Eastern Aleppo could well have fallen to the regime, putting Assad in a much better position.
We do need a deal in Syria.
When Assad wins. Come January 20 he'll have both the U.S. and Russia in his corner, along with Iran. His opponents won't be able to stand up against that.
SYRIA always was in the pocket of Iran because uranian oil financed them
So what if Assad is under the “ sway” of Russia and Iran? It puts grown ups in charge to contain Turkey and Saudi Arabia
The U.S. is under the sway of Saudi Arabia and look at the destruction that has caused...
If?
Assad is winning and will come out of this conflict with a much stronger popular support than before. The radical opponents will be worm fodder, the squishy cowards have fled, the minorities have seen that they need him for their durvival, the average Syrian has seen up close the alternative and will never think again of going down that road.
Surely Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the Kurds will have more to say... without Shia manpower, Russian arms and expertise and Kurds fighting against the jihadis on other fronts, Assad would not be where he is today.
The inevitable outcome will be a much diminished power of the Saudis, Qataris and Turks. Of course in their fits of anger they will try to create as much chaos in Syria as possible and save any shred of influence they still think they have.
It will be a bitter pill to swallow for the West and Israel... who have shortsightedly banked on toppling or destabilizing Assad. They will now have to come to terms with him.
But better with him than with a jihadi ‘caliph’.
Is that a reference to the Al-Ghouta attack?
The Ghouta sarin attack was fired from an opposition-controlled area into an opposition-controlled area. We know this because the drum-like sarin warheads have a severely limited range.
It was a very obvious false flag.
No, what we need is to GTFO of Syria’s civil war and let the sovereign government reestablish control over its landmass. Had we stayed out of that mess in the first place, the possibility of ISIS establishing a base of operations in Raqqa would’ve been far more remote.
I agree. Assad is now toothless and very broke.
Even if he survives he will not be capable of mischief for a long time.
SEND ALL THE SYRIANS BACK.
But, but, wait. The media assured us that GWB made up all that stuff about chemical weapons in the Middle-East.
Assad is better than anyone the US has been helping.
A plan?
Maybe send him a magnum bottle of champagne?
“if” <—— ha ha ha ha. That was settled the moment Vlad said it was.
DIdn’t Obummer and his allies let assad cross a red line a while back with absolutely no repercussions?