The new imperialist axis met to discuss partitioning Syria
giovedì 5 aprile 2018 English 0 commenti
Il Giornale, April 5, 2018It is indeed the nemesis of every peace process that the tragedy of Syria and its resolution ended up in the hands of the cat, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the fox, Hassan Rouhani, and their noble father, Vladimir Putin, yesterday: the world of new imperialism in a single photograph.
Their meeting in Ankara addressed a number of acute and conflicting interests, and a clear will to partition. All this, marked by the childish satisfaction - permitted however by the conspicuous absence of a foremost international player - that Trump’s America is out of the game, a mistake whose gravity Trump looks like starting understanding now as he postpones leaving the area as he announced. It should be clear that it would allow the expansion of his worst enemies in a volatile and extremely dangerous area. Trump would so fulfill in a very wring time his desire definitively to lift the anchor and set sail, abandoning the Kurds, Yazidis, dissident Sunnis, and Christians into the hands of the fantastic new trio. Europe is of course a nonstarter. And the massacre of the 300 hundred thousand in the hands of Assad and friends will continue.
The three protagonists didn’t embrace each other in front of the cameras; their smiles hardly concealed their conflicting personal agendas. In the long run, Iran and Russia support Assad whereas Erdogan hates him. But Erdogan, who stuns the world by murdering and imprisoning people right and left, now shows like molding any friction with Russia: Turkey is one of the few countries that have not expelled Russian diplomats after the nerve agent attack against one of Putin’s former spies who accused him of running a gangster state.
Now what does Turkey want from the Russian leader? Oh, not so much, permission to neutralize and ethnic cleaning the Kurds, the successful conclusion of the sale of the S400 missile system, among the most powerful in the world, and the implementation of the Rosatom plan for the first Turkish nuclear plant. And Iran? Oh nothing, just to dominate the entire Middle East, from Iran to Lebanon and from there - the sky’s the limit... And Russia, well, everything.
More generally, the three countries gathered to end seven years of war by highlighting their major interests. Russia and Iran want full access to the coast, where Russia’s naval facility in Tartus is located in order to exert Russian dominance in the Mediterranean and the air base outpost located in the port city of Latakia in Syria. Tehran is now fortifying a clear channel of passage to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and right up to the border with Israel: from this long line , Shia supremacy expands, and it can threaten Israel vis-à-vis its proxy Hezbollah. Ankara, after the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Afrin, while Assad, along with the Russians, bombed Idlib (an exchange between gentleman), wants to continue to persecute them in Manjib, west of the Euphrates, another Kurdish zone. It is therefore a pipe dream to think that the three forces on the ground will be able to stop the conflict: it began as a Sunni insurgency against the excessive Shite power of Assad and his friends and so, more desperately and even more extreme, it will continue. And the Kurds will not surrender to the Turks. The war will go on.
The summit in Ankara is the second, after a meeting in Sochi, which seeks to sell the idea that the three, first involved in clashes between themselves, now want to discuss a peace agreement. They speak before the cameras, legalists as they are, and democratic too, of a "Constitution" for the Syrian people; but in secrecy within the rooms of Erdogan's palace they surely discussed so much more. For example, Putin, it's known isn’t devoted to Assad’s survival, also has an axe to grind with Islam included the Iranian...
Trump, it has to be underlined again, was wrong to disclose yesterday that he would like leave Syria: it seems like a move taken out of fear of arguing with the cat the fox and the godfather, which endorses the abandonment of the Kurds, his greatest allies in the war against ISIS; it's a surrendering to all the evil of Erdogan's Turkey due to the concern that NATO could implode; it seems to leave the field open to Iran, whose nuclear ambitions and human rights violations he had the fortitude to rightly criticize. In short, it seems like a weak response to blackmail. Never do that!
And it is not true that it will save money: if the Saudis engage, out of the Shiite imperialist threat, in a war with Iran, the oil prices would immediately skyrocket and that would have a major impact on the global economy. And on America.
Translation by Amy Rosenthal