The assignment in Iraq was not carried through. “It stands with the Syrian state politically, economically and militarily”, he said, adding that Iranian support has been essential for Syria during “this hard and ferocious war”.
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Russia’s support for the government of President Bashar al-Assad is no secret but with its current build-up of hardware and manpower in Syria, Moscow is risking the possibility of a showdown with USA forces on the Syrian battlefield.
“The regime is running out of military people, so (Assad) is taking all the young kids, he’s forcing them – between the age of 16 and 45 – to fight their own people“, said Ghadban. Let’s move on from the blame. Then Ukraine became old news with the rise of ISIS.
Exactly. Putin is looking out for Russian national interests.
So important to President Obama is interfering in Syria that Congress had approved $500m (£323m) to train and equip around 5,000 rebels as a key plank of the U.S. strategy against Assad and IS.
“Iran supports Syria and the Syrian people”. Essentially, America failed to navigate a fissure of democracy and it sealed up.
To prevent the spread of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the U.S. , with the backing of the Labor government in Australia, exploited emerging opposition to the regimes in Libya and Syria to foment civil wars that have now left both those countries in ruins as well.
And if we consult those interests rather than respond to a reflexive Russophobia that passes for thought in the think tanks, we should be able to see our way clear to collaborate in Syria. ISIS occupies much of the north, except a portion of the Kurdish controlled area, who are really the only force capable at this point of battling the Islamic State. In other words, Assad and his regime now possess the vital military and political back up and his position of authority over the country is now rock-solid.
That’s long overdue: Obama declared flatly Assad had to go – but the president stubbornly refuses to throw USA weight behind those trying to make it happen. This as we know, is a foregone conclusion anyways and the conflict would simply drag out with further death, destruction, and the equivalent conclusion.
“Russia is helping Assad more than we expected”, Bassam Moustafa, a senior commander of rebel forces in northern Syria, told CBC News. It is in this spirit that I wish to speak on some disturbing revelations that have come to light about USA foreign policy in the Middle East. According to a former top official from the US intelligence community, the USA government created the terrorist
organization known as ISIS in order to destabilize and overthrow the government
of Syria. The oil-rich Arab countries need to be ordered to ante up and foot a big part of the bill to rebuild homes and infrastructure for the refugees. Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germans are ready to receive up to a million Syrian refugees out of the goodness of their heart.
An agreement on the front side should include a pull out date of both American and Russian military forces simultaneously. As for Syria, Assad’s era in history will eventually befallen him.
With many active duty personnel having recently served in Iraq and Afghanistan, local households are no strangers to the rigors of military life. One can only hope for lessons learned, stability, and a civilized country rising from this heap of ashes.
This is a crisis with many source factors from all around the world.
It has drawn in Iran and Russian Federation , and western nations, including Canada, who are using airstrikes to try to defeat the militants of ISIS.
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Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead”, Republican presidential candidate Sen. It is the next page and the next President of the United States that will be required to demonstrate strength and resolute in the face of escalating Russian aggression.
