Posted on 12/01/2016 1:57:59 AM PST by Freelance Warrior
Syrian rebels in secret talks with Moscow to end Aleppo fighting.
Turkey-facilitated negotiations without US show how Washington could become sidelined
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
The negotiations seem to have been unsuccessful so far, but the very fact that the USA aren't taking part may mean that the local players favour a direct agreement with Moscow while bypassing the USA.
An Aleppo council representative Ali Sheikh Omar said that the rebels had agreed on creating a negotiating group to hold talks with the Russian military on ceasing the airstrikes."
Ceasefires will ve broken by ‘rebels’ again. They cant help themselves.
Russia and Assad are at the brink of a strategic victory in Aleppo. No Turko-Jihadi stalling should be accepted - only total surrender.
Some big secret.
“an anonymous rebel source said to the FT.”
Was he dressed in green sitting on a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?
I get so tired of this schnit.
“They [Washington] have no idea what’s going on.” This administration has never known what was going on. Astronomical incompetence. Obama and Clinton created this mess and have armed the rebels.
And John Kerry has managed (or mismanaged) it.
The rebels would be smart to take a deal before Trump cuts them off. The Trump effect
They could easily end it. They used the call it “Surrender”.
Chaulk up another failure for Obama.
Assad is days or hours away from finishing Aleppo. The moderate be headers are out of options.
The reason US policy in the Mid East is in shambles is that we have never been able to articulate our interests honestly and then begin to act on those interests.
We have only two near-term interests in Syria: Stability, and the elimination of ISIS.
With that in mind, acting toward those interest would require a policy that says:
1. Support Assad
2. Seek legal overflight and ground deployment authorization
3. Cooperate with Russia, who has the VERY SAME INTERESTS
Instead, we have offered the world and Syria conflicting statements, actions that are clearly not in our interests (baffling and distracting all players) and incessant threats that never result in action.
Malicious amateurs in the US and Europe have been running US foreign policy for far too long, and they all must be expunged. Starting with the Neoconservatives.
That’s how we will regain respect in that region, and therefore a seat at the table.
Correct. Assad is the only force standing against jihadis
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