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by Shoshana Bryen • April 10, 2018
at 5:00 am
- The aggressive
partition of Syrian territory by Russia, Iran, Turkey and ISIS,
has security implications for the United States and our regional
allies that cannot be ignored.
- The U.S., its allies
and its adversaries should understand that President Trump
intends to push back on Syria's criminal behavior, Iran's
regional threat posture, and Russia and Turkey's delusions of
empire.
Russia props
up and abets the criminality of the Assad regime in Syria. Pictured:
Syrian President Bashar Assad is greeted in Moscow by Russian
President Vladimir Putin, October 20, 2015.
The Syrian government's chemical attack on civilians
in the rebel-held suburb of Douma this weekend is the complete
responsibility of the war criminal Bashar Assad, his Russian
bedfellows, and his Iranian bankers. However, the fact that President
Trump had announced that the U.S. is nearly finished its mission to
defeat ISIS (which is questionable) and wants to leave Syria quickly
may have encouraged the others to speed up their efforts to divide
Syria's corpse.
An independent country for only two years longer than
the State of Israel, Syria has reverted to its prior status as space
across which the competing interests of bigger empires and armies are
played out. President Trump claims to be uninterested in who rules
Damascus -- which is wise of him -- but the aggressive partition of
Syrian territory by Russia, Iran, Turkey and ISIS has security
implications for the United States and our regional allies that
cannot be ignored.
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