Hace ya diez
meses que comenzaron las acciones militares directas de Rusia en el territorio de Siria, país devastado desde hace más de cinco años por una “guerra civil” inventada mayormente
por la NATO y otras fuerzas regionales al servicio del Imperio. Comienzan a
verse los resultados; lentamente, Siria deja de ser noticia en los pasquines de
Occidente. Esas son grandes noticias, chicos; quiere decir que los malos van
perdiendo. Leemos en el sitio web Sic Semper Tyrannis, del militar
estadounidense (RE) y analista político-militar de Medio Oriente Pat Lang:
Título:
Rebel/US/Turkish failure at Aleppo is absolute
Texto: From the
day when the jaws of the Kurdish YPG stronghold at Sheikh Maqsood on the south
and the Syrian Army Tiger Forces coming down from the north closed on the
Castello Road at the north of the East Aleppo Pocket the lines of
circumvalation have been complete and uninterrupted at Aleppo.
Some have have
thought that the jihadi/unicorn effort at the SW of Aleppo city had broken the
siege, but it did not. Many do not
understand that for a route/road/path to be effective as an interruption of a
siege it must be useful as a means of transportation for
men/supplies/weapons. The penetration of
the R+6 lines at SW Aleppo City was never anything like that. The breach was always heavily covered by fire
and therefore never useful except for small groups like patrols. By "fire" I mean tank guns,
artillery, recoilless rifles, mortars, machine guns and anything else that can
shoot at the gap day and night. So far
as I know, no supplies went into East Aleppo through the breach. Now, as is shown in the map above, the breach
is completely closed and the lines of circumvallation made even stronger. IMO from a military POV rebel East Aleppo is
doomed and the Rebel/US/Turkish attempt to relieve the besieged has utterly
failed. The attempt to lift the siege
of east Aleppo was IMO a maximum effort with assets that have largely been lost
and which will be hard, if not impossible, to replace any time soon. the current rebel effort in north Hama
Province is a kind of consolation prize for the rebels that will soon be
eliminated as a threat.
John Kerry
threatened "new measures" after 1 September while at the same time
luring the Russians into accepting a "humanitarian" ceasefire. This temporary cessation of hostilities was
IMO clearly a ruse de guerre which enabled the pro-rebel sponsoring powers to
reinforce massively a rebel force designed to permanently break the government's
siege of East Aleppo. It was expected
that victory at Aleppo would be provided by Erdogan's enabling actions, but
that effort failed and now Obama/Kerry are faced with a need to confront
reality in Syria.
IMO Turkey has
made a bargain with Russia and Iran in which support for all the rebels (both
jihadi and FSA unicorns) who seek the destruction of the Syrian government will
largely cease while the Turks are free to destroy Kurdish ambitions east of
Aleppo City. The progress of the
Russo-Turkish relationship is easily seen in Erdogan's surly nastiness as
displayed toward Amtrak Joe Biden in Ankara and toward Obama in China.
With regard to
IS, the US/Russian agreement will enable a campaign of extermination against
them in eastern Syria and northern Iraq.
The Turks will participate in that because Erdogan has come to see them
as rivals in Islamism and a threat.
IMO, as a result
of these basic changes in circumstances the Obamanites are in search of a
face-saving compromise with the Russians over an end to the war in Syria. IMO this is reflected in the the soothing,
friendly sounds from both Russia and the United States over the possibility of
a ceasefire. Obama does not want to
leave the mess in Syria as a stain on his legacy. Since belligerence has failed, he now looks
for a prestige restoring alternative.
Can a thinly
veiled defeat be disguised as a wonderfully skilled diplomatic success? Yes.
The public outcome will promise things like; a new constitution,
eventual exile for Bashar Assad, UN supervision of interim elections, etc.,
etc., ad nauseam.
The underlying
truth will be that Syria will remain a multi-confessional state with Bashar
Assad as president for a long time. If
HC becomes president she will have to face the prospect of a new, and bigger
war if she wishes to reverse the situation.
R+6 is going to
win.
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