Belägringen av Aleppo är förstås en enorm framgång för den syriska armén och deras allierade, det inser även Turkiet och USA. Turkiet har uttryckt önskemål om förbättrade relationer med Syrien och USA:s John Kerry åkte till Moskva och erbjöd samarbete mot terroristerna.
Men varför skulle USA vilja samarbeta med Ryssland och Syrien nu, varför denna helomvändning? Jo, det ser en chans att med hjälp av Ryssland manövrera ut president al-Assad.
Citat:
“Is Obama ‘offer’ for Russian cooperation in Syria too good to be true?
Nine months ago when Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s anti-terror intervention in Syria, Barack Obama scorned the move, predicting it would lead to a disastrous quagmire. Why then is the US president so keen now to team up with Russia?
From dire predictions of Russian military failure in Syria to this week’s appeal by the Obama administration for cooperation “to defeat terrorists” in the Arab country, there is apparently a dramatic shift in US policy.”
“US media reports quote US officials as saying that the al-Qaeda-linked jihadists are telling their cadres that the Caliphate is on the brink of collapse. Significantly, too, this is also the context in which Turkey has shifted to a conciliatory position towards Russia and is even proffering a normalization of relations with Syria.
Washington and its regional allies, including Turkey, appear to be tacitly admitting that the covert military operation that they have been fueling for regime change in Syria is all but lost.
This is the context by which to read the latest “offer” from the Obama administration to Russia for military cooperation in Syria. After months of deprecating Russia’s intervention and stubbornly refusing to coordinate “anti-terror” efforts, Washington now appears to be reaching out to assist Russia.
Following the meeting between Putin and Kerry this week, the Kremlin said that “the topic of direct interaction between the Russian and US military in Syria was not discussed in detail”.
“They discussed different cooperation formats… but questions remain,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “We are not much closer to real cooperation in order to increase the effectiveness of efforts to combat terrorism in Syria.””
“The real aim for Washington is not striking terrorists. How could it be given America’s bloodied hands in this dirty war? The real target is to thwart the winning side against terrorism in Syria, and to blow apart the Russian-Syrian alliance – which Washington calculates would lead eventually to regime change.
In a word: don’t buy it.”
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/351310-obama-offer-russian-cooperation-syria/
