Details are scant, but Secretary of State John Kerry has claimed a “nationwide” ceasefire has been established in Syria, following negotiations with Russia. No local faction within Syria has confirmed the ceasefire yet, and reels have expressed doubts about it.
Kerry presented the new ceasefire as a replacement for the “piecemeal” ceasefires currently in place, though the Syrian military affirmed the extension of the local ceasefire in Aleppo, suggesting such measures aren’t exactly being phased out.
Kerry also claimed that the deal included major limitations to the Syrian military being allowed to fly missions over civilian areas around the country. Russian officials have yet to confirm anything about this putative deal.
Rebels said they don’t believe the Assad government would respect the deal, but so far no faction seems to e doing anything about it, and it is only a single comment by Kerry that suggests the deal is even a thing. While there is some hope this might lead to new peace talks, it wouldn’t be the first time the US and Russia made a deal which ultimately didn’t take hold inside Syria.
Here we go again — “rebels”. Syria is not a large country. Why not show precisely the areas “the rebels” hold, as well as their name. We may have a memory of a fruit fly, but even so, it will be hard to forget the fact that before ISIS took over as an “enemy”, all the “rebels” years before ISIS appearance were Islamic Salafi militants, and they committed horrendous crimes over defenseless population. Their atrocities are well documented by the population, and witnesses of their crimes are in hundreds of thousands. So, now that we have only Al-Nusra, the Al-Qaeda affiliate, and ISIS — what happened to those that killed Christians, Shia or “non-complying” Sunni all these years before ISIS conveniently took the spotlight? Why are we now trying to clean up their record, even though they are all cozily “imbedded” into Al-Nusra?
This is a gross spectacle, yet, we go along with the lie, the illusion of the master illusionists in our “mainstream” press and the political/media narrative that dominates our world?
Really, who is the ceasefire for? And who is speaking on the behalf of the “rebels” that nobody can pinpoint on the ground? Protecting Al-Nusra seems to be the only obsession of Secretary Kerry, and it is getting painfully obvious. But it will not work — Al-Nusra has already committed crimes by attacking refugee camp with their artillery fire, while the White House spokesman hinted that these were government airstrikes. The world laughs.
The situation worsens! Obama and Putin conspired together to prevent a US led war in Syria and it’s held so far. And it’s likely to hold because Obama empowered Russia with Putin’s help. Damn that uppity …………! (ask me how they did that if you don’t get it yet) And now Kerry is in there interfereing on Obama’s behalf and threatening more peace! So fail or succeed, it’s only the Syrian people who will continue to be slaughtered by skirmishes and real war is out of the question. Russia has been empowered and won’t allow it!
And to deviate onto another topic, the same goes for Iran, only different circumstances and mechanisms were employed by that uppity …………., along with the other parties to the agreement. Now there is no turning back for the US because of MAD. Russia and China again hold the upper hand and the position of legitimacy.
At least we can say that we’re back to where we were before the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the few years of opportunity that was first demonstrated with the first war on Iraq and the Kosovo war. America was simply not ready for a black president or one that would sell the farm so callously and recklessly! LOL
luv from Canada.