The Assad’s spell and the region’s ruins

The response of the Saudi-Turkish-Qatari alliance to the Russian-American consecutive doping doses about dealing with the Syrian crisis looks strangely provocative.  

The problem is that those doping doses don’t end the crisis as much they quicken moving its fire to the lands of those countries. The terrorist attacks perpetrated by the PKK in Turkey and the ones carried out by ISIS in Saudi Arabia might be just a rehearsal that precedes the biggest explosion. 

Since June 2012, the date of Geneva Communique which included Kofi Annan’s six-point plan on top of which stopping militarizing the “conflict”, indiscriminate killing hasn’t stopped for one day in Syria while the “militarization” that was intended to be finished has leaked out into neighboring countries; then it spilled over and hit the very heart of Europe by explosives and the growing influx of refugees. 

Between Geneva I and Geneva II, many dramatic changes and developments took place in the region during which many “red lines” set by the Friends of Syria were dropped and crossed; meanwhile, Assad survived due to the reluctance of those “friends” and the infinite support by Iran and the political-military Russian cover and most importantly by an implicit American veto which has become public.

Despite all that support to Assad, he wouldn’t have survived without the “rationality” of his enemies and their commitment to Obama’s wishes and orders in terms of limiting the military support to the opposition or through preventing them from any direct military intervention in Syria.

The allies of the Syrian revolution have so far been offering limited military support for opposition fighters. In many occasions ammunition was only enough for launching one battle while sophisticated weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles were kept as dreams and hopes.

The political solution was no more than a trick that has managed to prevent Assad regime from falling which was so imminent in many occasions. Therefore, the Russian intervention came to stop the advance by opposition fighters in many areas. 

Those doping doses have also affected Europeans in Vienna after Paris attacks. In this context, we can consider the ceasefire agreements or cessation of hostilities as another kind of deception that aims at managing the crisis more than finding a permanent solution for it.  

Iyad Issa in Orient Net Arabic 

Translated by Orient Net English