The International Syria Support Group (ISSG), a body of diplomats including the US, Russia, the UN, and several other nations, has met in Vienna today and issued a statement threatening to expel violators of the Syrian ceasefire from the deal.
The statement warns that if all the co-chairs agree that a party is in a “pattern of non-compliance” they can refer the matter to the other ISSG members for a discussion to potentially exclude that party from the ceasefire in the future.
The statement suggests this would be an extremely slow process, and with both the US and Russia in the group, the prospect that the two would agree on the same violator seems really unlikely. At any rate, the Syrian ceasefire is fairly shaky at this point at any rate, with fighting having resumed in several regions, and everyone accusing everyone else of violating it.
This appears to have been the primary statement out of the Vienna talks, which also points to international attempts at getting peace talks going again not being particularly successful, something EU officials have complained is the result of the US and Russia cutting everybody out of the important talks, and then being unable to make any bilateral deals at any rate.
The relative peace in Syria is holding and it’s due to Obama’s treasonous acts of empowering Russia and letting Putin gain a foothold in Syria, and hence Iran. Iran through Obama’s admin’s cooperation with the united efforts of the EU that was mostly intent on a deal to prevent another US led war.
It’s going to hold and it’s going to become a part of Obama’s legacy in the eyes of the greater world’s cause. Without the treasonous efforts of Obama, the US war promotion would have succeeded in both Syria and Iran before mechanisms were put in place to stop the US march to global domination which began with Iraq and Kosovo and more.
Obama has snookered his own country, with the aid of Putin. US led war in Syria and Iran can only result in a nuclear war and that’s not in the cards. With one possible exception: A corporate psychopath knows no fear and will not be defeated from carrying out his agenda. Read any Psychologist’s or Psychiatrist’s analysis of psychopathic behaviour. Read about ways of identifying a corporate psychopath. Trump is indeed the wild card! Thanks Justin Raimondo for promoting the possibility.
I can offer as proof of my assertions the following story by the Washington Post and reprinted on the antiwar.com mainpage:
“White House cites executive privilege, keeps Obama aide from testifying about Iran nuclear deal”
The contradictions by the Obama haters and racists was always destined to come home to roost. This is the evidence of that which can no longer be ignored.
Remember what we are here for fellow antiwar friends. Remember our main cause!
luv from Canada.