Syria - Preparing For The Next
Major Push
By Moon
Of Alabama
March 07,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Moon
Of Alabama" -
There seems to be some progress in the regional
"games" around the conflict in Syria. The Turkish
Prime minister Davutoglu currently visits Iran. The
Iranians let some lucrative economic projects dangle
in front of his eyes. But the main points were about
Syria. According to this Turkish source Davutoglu
said
these issues were agreed upon:
taylieli @taylieli
#Turkish PM Davutoglu: We've reached on deal
with #Iran for 5 matters: 1) A joint visit to
#Jordan to discuss on #Syria, on coming days (1)
2) The
continuity of ceasfire in #Syria
3) The unity of #Syria
4) The participitation of all -internal- actors
in #Syria's future (2)
5) The
joint act to defeat all kind of terrorism inc. #Isil
in the geography of #ME. (3)
This smells
like an bit of change in the so far rigid Turkish
position.
Russian
military transport traffic through the Bosporus has
markedly increased. A lot of new trucks, tanks and
artillery are coming to Syria. In the summer the
Russian aircraft carrier will take station at the
Syrian coast. This is likely the build up for a
major campaign.
Meanwhile
the U.S.
is building a second (small) airport in north
east Syria to, allegedly, support its Kurdish proxy
forces there in the fight against the Islamic State.
Syria and Russia should be very careful in allowing
such creeping occupation. It is difficult to get rid
of such U.S. incursions once they are established.
On Friday
another U.S trained, paid and armed force, probably
only a few dozen or so,
attacked the Syria-Iraq border crossing at Tanaf
which was in the hand of the Islamic State. The
"rebel" marketing campaign claimed that this group
was the "New Syrian Army". The border crossing is
also near the Jordan border from where these
fighters came. They had U.S. (or Jordan) air support
and managed to capture the handful of lone buildings
in the desert that constitute the station. But 24
hours later the Islamic State said it was again in
full control of it. If true, and I believe it is,
this "new Syrian army" is a sad joke and will not
play a role in the race to Raqqa.
In total
everyone seems to use the current relative quiet of
the "cessation of hostilities" to move into launch
positions for a possibly final campaign against IS
and the other objectionable subjects. It will be a
hot summer in Syria. |
