Sunday 4 February 2018

Syria is a total mess!

Syria right now is a total disaster. Turkey is waging its own war to kill as many Kurds as possible close to the Turkish/Syrian border, Russia is totally entrenched, waiting for its moment to move in as the big power in the region, the US has several hundred troops still in the country but no obvious political influence, Turkey and the US are at loggerheads over the attacks on American-trained Kurdish forces, Iran's malign influence is as strong as ever, al Qaeda is still around, the Nusra Front, now renamed but still the same well-trained and equipped fighters, are never going to leave, some Isis fighters remain and the civil war has not ended. Pehaps it never will. The only real winner is Bashar Assad who looks like surviving as Syrian leader. As for the Syrian people, none of them have won anything. Citizens returning to Raqqa and to their homes have found utter destruction. There is very little hope that their lives will change for the better for the next five to ten years. The Isis caliphate has been eliminated which is one positive achievement. But at what terrible cost for the Syrian people, and the reason why the rebellion against Assad began in the first place has not been resolved one jot. It is easy to forget that the war began because the people rose up against Assad. Isis came later. For terrorists, wars open up opportunities for exploitation because when anarchy takes over, there is always a vacuum ready to be filled by evil people. Does anyone in power in the rest of the world seriously have a plan to bring unity to this God-forsaken country? I'm afraid the answer is no.

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