Syria’s post-war reconstruction is too much for anyone to take on alone. It needs to be a comprehensive, international endeavor. This is a good opportunity for the SCO and BRICS to transform themselves into real international actors tackling urgent problems.
By honoring its JCPOA commitments, the US along with Iran was preventing a war. With the deal torn up, conflict becomes very likely. In general terms, the scenario and consequences of that conflict can be predicted and described.
A part of Serbia has been snatched away to create a territory controlled by NATO. But that does not prevent Western leaders from pontificating about the need to play by the rules in the world today. Is there a better example of hypocrisy?
The people who play key roles in the government and purportedly nongovernmental sectors like think tanks not only think alike, in many cases they are in fact the very same people who have simply switched positions within what could best be understood as a single, hybrid public-private entity that in recent years has come to be known as the Deep State.
Evidently, the deployment is part of a broader plan to roll back Iran and reshape the region. It’s not limited to Yemen. A military base is constructed in Berbera, Somaliland, by the UAE to the chagrin of Somalia’s government in Mogadishu.
Tensions are running high in Europe and a wider conflict could ignite at any time in Syria. In either situation it won’t be Russia that provokes the explosive situations that threaten to deteriorate into a full-blown conflict.
The Javelins will not change anything. Those weapons systems are not powerful enough to give Ukrainian troops the crucial advantage they will need to ensure a victory.
s recent events in Syria suggest, Russia has found an effective way of keeping aggressive Western powers at bay with state-of-the-art missile systems and electronic warfare methods – much of it reportedly developed by young scientists and on the cheap.
The process of sliding into a wider conflict in Syria sparked by clashes between Israel and Iran is gaining significant traction.
Does the goal of pushing Russia out of Syria and forcing a rollback of Iran justify reversing whatever successes may have been achieved and plunging Syria back into a never-ending free-for-all?
