The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War was Won

October 18, 2019, Consortium News (USA) https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/18/pepe-escobar-the-road-to-damascus-how-the-syria-war-was-won/

By Pepe Escobar*

Special to Consortium News

Following the Damascus-Kurdish alliance, Syria may become the biggest defeat for the Central Intelligence Agency since Vietnam, says Pepe Escobar.

What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I’ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way: 

“It’s a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell as avoiding a conflict with NATO ally Turkey. Turkey has the guarantee – by the Russians – that the Syrian Army will be in control of the Turkish-Syrian border. Russia prevents a war escalation and keeps the Russia-Iran-Turkey peace process alive.  And Syria will eventually regain control of the entire northeast.”

Syria may be the biggest defeat for the CIA since Vietnam.

Yet that hardly begins to tell the whole story.

Allow me to briefly sketch in broad historical strokes how we got here.

It began with an intuition I felt last month at the tri-border point of Lebanon, Syria and Occupied Palestine; followed by a subsequent series of conversations in Beirut with first-class Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian, Russian, French and Italian analysts; all resting on

BRICS, Russia/The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins

October 16, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/16/the-russian-masterpiece-in-syria-everyone-wins/

Federico PIERACCINI*

“Moscow and Damascus have always maintained they are against any form of partition or illegal foreign presence in Syria.”

Moscow has managed to maintain contacts with all parties in the conflict, even in spite of its stance against partition and illegal foreign presence. Trilateral talks between Iran, Turkey and Russia occurred in Astana at Moscow’s urging. Putin managed to bring together in Sochi the Syrian government and opposition groups to discuss the future of Syria. In Geneva, Moscow mediated between Damascus and the international community, shielding Syria from the diplomatic skulduggery of the US and other enemies of Syria.

Turkey, solely as a result of its defeat in Syria, now finds itself in active dialogue with Moscow and Tehran. As Ankara experiences worsening relations with Washington and other European capitals, Moscow saw a great opportunity to bring Turkey closer to Damascus.

Russia’s operation was complicated and required a lot of patience; but thanks to negotiations supervised by Russia, together with the bravery and courage of Syrian soldiers, almost all

BRICS, БРИКС/COMO A RÚSSIA ESTÁ DETONANDO O JOGO TURCO NA SÍRIA

4 dezembro 2015, Tlaxcala http://www.tlaxcala-int.org (México)

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Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар 

Porque a prioridade sempre foi deixar que a CIA comande – nas sombras – uma "linha de rato" – pela qual continue a fornecer armas a uma legião de "rebeldes moderados".

Assim como o Daesh – pelo menos até agora – a gangue Barzani no Curdistão Iraquiano nunca agia no turno em que Washington fazia a 'segurança'. A operação que o Governo Regional do Curdistão comanda na Turquia é virtualmente ilegal; de roubo do petróleo que pertence ao estado, no que tenha a ver com Bagdá.

O petróleo que o 'Estado Islâmico' rouba não pode passar por território controlado por Damasco. Não pode passar pelo Iraque dominado pelos xiitas. Não pode andar para o leste até o Irã. É a Turquia ou nada. A Turquia é o braço mais oriental da OTAN. EUA e OTAN 'apoiam' a Turquia. E assim se demonstra que EUA e OTAN, no fim das contas, apoiam o ISIS/ISIL/Daesh/Estado Islâmico.

O que é certo é que o petróleo ilegal roubado pelo Daesh