Långläsning för dem som orkar. Nir Rosen anförande på the Valdai Club Conference om situationen i MÖ och specifikt Syrien. Han verkar inte vara Assadist, däremot är han uppenbarligen mycket insatt i vad som händer i Syrien. Verkligen värd att läsa m.a.o. Ett litet utdrag:
Nir Rosen: The War in Syria Is Not Over
Nir Rosen: The War in Syria Is Not Over
/.../Western sanctions are a manifestation of a morally bankrupt strategy and the refusal to recognize reality. At every step of the way the West has escalated the war, prevented solutions, and made things worse. Rather than engaging with the government to find solutions it declared the government illegitimate and appointed a group of corrupt, useless and unrepresentative individuals as the representatives of the Syrian people while supporting insurgents. The West refused to look at solutions that did not involve regime change so America and the Europeans opposed local ceasefires and reconciliations and ordered the UN not to support them. So the only experiments with potential were ignored when they could have helped, but this was seen as helping the regime win. Well the regime won and you were not able to influence anything. Instead it was further isolated and its creative officials who pursued peaceful and negotiated local solutions were marginalized. At every step of the conflict the West undermined potential solutions and prolonged the conflict, with the former UN envoy facilitating this. The West clung to the hope that the threat to the state would force it to offer concessions, so it tolerated or even supported half the country collapsing to insurgents, Nusra and ISIS, hoping that this would give the West leverage to pressure the regime. But it did not. And now that this has failed the West wants to punish Syrians once again by imposing a siege on them. It is as if they are trying to bring the country to its knees, like Iraq in the 90s, or Venezuela today.http://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/war-is-not-over/
