Some reports of isolated fighting and some grousing aside, the Syrian ceasefire that went into effect yesterday is largely holding, with hope that it could lead to some formal peace talks in the near future, as well as some long needed humanitarian aid deliveries.
Russia, one of the brokers of the deal, has brought it to the UN Security Council, seeking a quick vote on endorsement of the ceasefire, UN support for future peace talks in Kazakhstan, and a call for the UN to deliver humanitarian aid throughout the country.
Resolutions on Syria don’t have an easy time at the UN Security Council, with the US and Russia tending to veto one another’s proposals most of the time, sometimes seemingly for spite. Russia, Turkey, and Iran are planning the Kazakhstan talks, and Russia is also urging Egypt to join the process. They have made clear that the US is welcome to help too, but only after the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
The UN Security Council has indicated that the vote on the resolution will happen Saturday morning. So far, there are no reports of any specific threats to veto the resolution, but Russia’s explicit exclusion of the pre-Trump US is likely to add a bit of tension to the voting process.
This is where the US will promote an attack against Syria’s military in order to break the peace and get the slaughter going again. It will be cleverly hidden that the US isn’t causing it.
The US must be stopped and this site could do it’s part by not promoting Trump or any other corrupt US politician. We all need to be on the same side and it’s time that Raimondo is told that he isn’t helping.
luv from Canada.
It took Russia not America who started it all to put and end to the wanton murder of Syrians that it orchestrated on behalf of the Zionist and still think America being an honest broker asked to participate in the ceasefire.
If you believe that the Trump-Putin alignment for the Middle East is about oil or democracy, let lone peace consider the following. The two largest arms exporters are our USA and Russia. Among the top ten of the largest arms buyers are Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Quatar. Syria and Libya do not buy many arms now. They get them as presents but that will eventually change. So let’s do what Portugal and Spain once did with the slave trade namely agree on spheres of influence to keep others out. It is true that the arms trade total is only tens of billions, not trillions, today. However once a country is in your pocket it will hard for that country to change its weaponry to another source because that also requires a complete retraining of its users [1]. Political influence goes with arms. Moreover, a US-Russian lock on these states will keep China and the budding Great Britain out. If they take over Lockheed may go bankrupt.
[1] A famous case happened in the 19th century when Krupp sent it’s newest cannon with operators to Petersburg for demonstrations. The Russian experts reported that this was then by far the best cannon of the world but recommended against buying it because it would take several years for the Czar’s armed forces to develop new procedures and retrain its cannon personnel. That cannon still stands in the Peter and Paul fortress of the city. It was a present from Krupp to the Czar.
I will not be surprised to learn that representatives of Trump and Putin have already huddled and divided these 7 + 2 buyers among themselves.