With Syria’s Geneva II peace talks now entirely over, and little to no chance of another round happening, the US and Russia are trading blame, both insisting the failure is the other’s fault.
Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Assad government of “stonewalling” on the talks, saying Russia had given them “increased support” during the talks to avoid agreeing to the US demands of regime change.
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov was more than willing to talk about the “increased support” angle as well, noting the US and other Western nations were throwing more and more military aid at a growing number of rebels during the course of the talks.
“A course is being set to move away from the negotiations track and once again place bets on a military scenario,” Lavrov said of the influx of US aid.
If there is a government then you negotiate with the government, in Syrian case, the USG doesn’t recognize the Syrian government but admits that there is one of their choice called “transitional”, that is if the present Syrian government would step down. Here, there is no word of Syrian people nor if the Syrian people would like to participate voting for this “transitional” government, nor if Syrian people are invited to say what they think. Syrian people are engaged in defeating the Saudis barbarians and their international affiliated terrorists whom are the friends of western political, bankers and oil companies establishment, so, when A transitional government chosen by them, what happens to democracy, where is the right of Syrian people? In democracy, if such thing both in EU and US exist, people’s should have the right to chose, in the other hand what USG, Saudis and EU governments are saying is: it is us and our decision that your life is pending on, not your votes, nor your god given nor your democratic rights in freedom, this is a message circulating around the world by the present “democratically” elected USG and NSA approving the fact.
Kerry didn't want talks. He stumbled into them when he answered a question at a press conference.
The talks failed because the US did not make the effort to force the rebels to attend. That would have meant what Russia did to Assad — condition further support on compliance.
From this distance, we can't tell if Kerry was weak, or just didn't want to talk about Syria just now.
He could talk again any time he wanted. All he'd need to do is corral the rebels to promise to attend.
Kerry didn't want talks. He stumbled into them when he answered a question at a press conference.
The talks failed because the US did not make the effort to force the rebels to attend. That would have meant what Russia did to Assad — condition further support on compliance.
From this distance, we can't tell if Kerry was weak, or just didn't want to talk about Syria just now.
He could talk again any time he wanted. All he'd need to do is corral the rebels to promise to attend.