Multiphasing The Paradigm - Keeping an Eye on Damascus From a Russian View

Submitted by MTovey (United States), Feb 25, 2019 at 13:25

These circumstances in the 'fertile crescent' region of the Middle East begs again and again: how does the continually shifting balance of powers in northeastern Syria and northern Iraq portend towards any solution to the region, that so far no one entity can guarantee any stability towards any antagonism that has ulterior motives that instead, destabilizes for objectives that cannot be the reason for peace in the region.

Strangely, the one politically motivated force is the one that should have the least interest in being the determinant for peace; for America ostensibly is the region's greater customer for the petroleum products if peace were allowed to reign for that kind of commerce. Yet, America's presence, when it was a larger force for stability in the region, was stood down by the 44th American Chief Executive to allow for others to be the determinant of force to stabilize the meltdown of Syria; an action that has since proved to be the most destabilizing action of the entirety of the region. The scent of blame in this action is overwhelming. But it did reveal something – who has caught on as to what that means today?

The default answer is that no mortal human can resist to over-dramatize the resultant action that needs resolving under a more rational answer: that totalitarianism will not resolve anything either. Al-Assad is not the answer –even the Russians know that by now. They are the ones to watch now.

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