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US forces are deploying in ayn el arab, now understtod why BLINKEN visited Turkey
You want them to remain? LOLUS bases will remain in Syria to protect Kurds and keep an eye on ISIS and Alquida activities.
US bases will remain in Syria to protect Kurds and keep an eye on ISIS and Alquida activities.
I think he's happy to have them remain there. Some of the AoR guys are very inconsistent. They support US military deployments and bases in some cases but not others. In this case they see it as beneficial to their axis to have a fragmented Syria instead of a unified Syria led by Sunni government.They don't have capacity to keep the PKK holding all the arab lands without a revolt.
Unless they are planning to bomb uprisings to force PKK control over people, this isn't a good strategy for long term control.
Which I see as misguided and sectarian.
It would benefit AoR to not alienate the Syrian government and people and instead work with them. Mature and non-sectarian leadership is needed in AoR.
Right now do you blame them? What's left for them? 12 years of war managed nothing. They know nobody can take back the entire country now for them. Nobody's going to restore the previous government(with or without Bashar)now,so the only thing they can ask for,at least for now,is to be protected and have their own seperate or autonomous State. Imagine how many thousands of soldiers and volunteers they've lost in the war. It's impossible for loyalists to regain the country now. Besides,the people are fed up with the war.I've seen it on twitter, quite a few Alawite Assadists calling for a breakaway state in Latakia and Tartus under the protection of the two Russian bases, when only a few weeks back they were projecting themselves as "Syrian Nationalists".
E so what's the problem? It's a good strategy. Although...too little too late. I'll bet Bashar had little freedom in taking such decisions and all the hardliners in the government were stubbornly saying "no,no".So Assad tactically supported them against other Syrian(syrians under the majority btw), b/c he saw them at the very least as a tactical tool. And if he was successful in destroying his main opponents, then he could think about taking out the separatists he created, and if he wasn't successful in taking out the other Syrians(majority), the separatist entity is still an ally in a power balancing scheme, whether in a stalemate freeze, or in a permanent breakage.
When you understand these axioms, you understand this conflict and his tactical play better.
Right now do you blame them? What's left for them? 12 years of war managed nothing. They know nobody can take back the entire country now for them. Nobody's going to restore the previous government(with or without Bashar)now,so the only thing they can ask for,at least for now,is to be protected and have their own seperate or autonomous State. Imagine how many thousands of soldiers and volunteers they've lost in the war. It's impossible for loyalists to regain the country now. Besides,the people are fed up with the war.
E so what's the problem? It's a good strategy. Although...too little too late. I'll bet Bashar had little freedom in taking such decisions and all the hardliners in the government were stubbornly saying "no,no".
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