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Would Assad and his cronies be readier to go if provisions for a safe and secure retirement were in place? As things are, they know if they don't hang together and continue to fight they'll assuredly hang separately.
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Now that absolutely everything is going his way, the US (and presumably UK) are no longer clamouring for his head. Indeed now, he can remain as President, but would he stop killing the terrorists we train and arm. Amazing how Russian missile systems have improved his standing with the western world.
Russia doesn't want Assad to go - either to Lake Geneva (some hope) or more likely the same suburb of Moscow that houses Ukrainian ex-president Yanukovych - unless they can be sure that he will leave behind a regime that is willing to allow them to keep Tartus as their Mediterranean naval base.
That is what it will come down to in the end.
There seems - in fact there is - little or no prospect of Assad and his family winning a democratic election in Syria, with or without the participation of the vastly growing Syrian diaspora. It is inconceivable that he would ever be involved in such elections, if only for practical purposes. What would work, presumably, would be a deal where Russia was persuaded that a post-Assad Syria would not be inimical to it, in which case they could take him to Moscow and a new start could be made.
Saying that there can be no solution involving Assad is not a bargaining position, it is simply a reality.
That is what it will come down to in the end.
There seems - in fact there is - little or no prospect of Assad and his family winning a democratic election in Syria, with or without the participation of the vastly growing Syrian diaspora. It is inconceivable that he would ever be involved in such elections, if only for practical purposes. What would work, presumably, would be a deal where Russia was persuaded that a post-Assad Syria would not be inimical to it, in which case they could take him to Moscow and a new start could be made.
Saying that there can be no solution involving Assad is not a bargaining position, it is simply a reality.
"A little video for Sandy and Ichi to peruse. What should have been a major news story but strangely wasn't.
It depicts the murderous tyrant Assad's forces subjugating the people of Homs after they had enjoyed freedom under the benevolent rule of your 'friendly rebels'. "
And that isn't the Syrian state news agency by any chance :-)
Mind you I am sure they are glad if it means they aren't going to be barrel bombed any more. And they can be sure there'll be no revenge massacring, kidnappings, that sort of thing...
As I said in the other thread, the ordinary people are desperate for an end to fighting.
It depicts the murderous tyrant Assad's forces subjugating the people of Homs after they had enjoyed freedom under the benevolent rule of your 'friendly rebels'. "
And that isn't the Syrian state news agency by any chance :-)
Mind you I am sure they are glad if it means they aren't going to be barrel bombed any more. And they can be sure there'll be no revenge massacring, kidnappings, that sort of thing...
As I said in the other thread, the ordinary people are desperate for an end to fighting.
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