State Department spokesman John Kirby is bragging up the US State Department’s sordid achievements of 2015, even things that they demonstrably never did. Key among those was the declaration from Kirby that the US brought “peace and security to Syria.”
The US has been bombing war-torn Syria for months, and ISIS controls around half of the nation’s territory, and the nation is shedding millions of refugees, who are fleeing anywhere and everywhere just to get out of the conflict.
Syria at this point seems to be the least peaceful place imaginable, and despite Kirby’s efforts to couch America’s involvement as a “humanitarian contribution,” it consists pretty much exclusively of arming some militant factions and bombing others,
Kirby went on to brag of the US “stepping up to aid the Syrian people during their time of need,” and taking credit for peace talks nominally set for next month, and which at this point don’t really have a set list of involved parties.
Ironically, the peace talks are the fruit of a Russian effort to get moderate rebels to talk with the Assad government, something the US had long resisted and openly opposed, and its contribution seems chiefly to be that they’ve finally gotten out of the way of it.
The Russian goal is to keep the naval base at all costs. That means keeping Assad in power, whether the Syrians themselves want him in power or not (and, if given a free choice, they would probably vote him out). Keeping Assad in power means talking up a "transitional" government with Assad in it and then trying to prevent any premanent solution being adopted. The naval base doesn't defend Russia nor does it threaten any other country and would be useless in a war with NATO, so the US doesn't care about the base, one way or the other. The "point", for the US, is to bog Putin down in Syria so as to defeat him in Ukraine, and dangling Assad under his nose is a good way of bogging him down. If Putin succeeds in keeping Assad in power, he will be bogged down from now to kingdom come propping up his puppet. He will have, in effect, revived Sykes-Picot, re-establishing a European colonial protectorate over Syria. That will hardly please the Syrians, particularly if the country is de facto partitioned and their "protector" does nothing to get them back the Golan (which he won't!). Putin is now in the same mess as the Soviets were in in the 1980s: bogged down in a colonial war in the Middle East and in an arms race in Europe. So let him talk all he wants!
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The USA may as well continue with the lies. Claimed often enough, and supported by the tame media, they will be accepted by the sheeple. It works very effectively for Israel, too.
By doing what, nothing much except piggybacking on the efforts of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the Syrian Army?
Seems like something a bunch of slackers and bullsh!t artists would say.
"…US brought “peace and security to Syria.”"
Is that anything like the TV commercials being run by the Navy (I think – could be any of them tho) stating that the world is a safer place because of them. Or Rubio saying that the world needs a strong US to make the world a safe place. The Frau and I broke out laughing when we first heard that one.