French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. © Sputnik / Kirill Kallinikov
Newsweek: Has Assad Won the War? France Says He Has as Syria Warns U.S. Against Attack
Syria's top diplomat warned the U.S. and its Western allies Monday that they were not capable of preventing his country from launching a final assault on rebels as his French counterpart appeared to concede victory to the Syrian government.
In an interview with Russia's state-run Rossiya-24 outlet, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem repeated claims that Western governments were plotting to conspire with militants in the last rebel-held province of Idlib to stage a chemical weapons attack and blame Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a pretext for military action. The U.S. and its partners have twice responded with force to reports that Assad used internationally banned poison gases throughout a seven-year civil war against rebels and jihadis, but the Syrian government, along with its Russian and Iranian allies, has dismissed these claims and other allegations of war crimes as attempts to frame the Syrian leader.
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WNU Editor: He is right. France has won the war, but they have not won the peace.
/France won the Syrian Civil War? Must have been an all day long goodbye.... ;)
ReplyDeleteThe US and its "allies" have all but telegraphed to the "rebels" that it is okay to stage another chemical weapons attack. Such an action carries no downside risks for them and has much upside potential. Even still if America gets more involved it won't change the outcome. The Syrian government is going to win. I predicted this back in 2011. I'm pleased the French foreign minister is finally catching on. It's time to accept reality and adjust our policies accordingly.
ReplyDeleteComrade, do not come on too strongly. You have to be more persuasive with the Yankees. Subtle subtle. We drink vodka later and sing about glorious mother Russia later, OK?
DeletePoster, America will not get involved, gas or not.
ReplyDeleteIf we were, to what end? We are in deeply enough and perhaps too deep already. With the prior occupant of the White House, Putin saw an open door and walked in. Too late for us now, thank goodness. Besides, we have better things to do.
This is Russia's tar baby. Involvement in this muzlim mess is also a liability for the old fools in Iran, who are not walking on water these days, a situation not due to the changing climate in Iran.
Syria will be destitute for decades, I would think. There will be no Marshall plan for them except, perhaps, some Chinese debt con job, assuming there is anything there for which to con. There's always ISIS, ever helpful and supported until they are genetically removed from the planet, but their numbers are reduced to the occasional act of stupid. The middle east will have to deal with them as it's their baby.
Assad is not the man for the job. Putin has never forgotten the glory days of the cold war. The old dinosaurs in Iran are increasingly unsupported. Let them continue to build their dynasties if they want. I want little to do with it. A mostly hopeless region.