Syria’s “de-conflict” truce: Syrian opposition leader Mohammad Alloush seems to have realized that making a deal with the Russians is better than continuing an uphill battle against them without broad support from elsewhere. Sami Moubayed writes that the “de-conflict” agreement between the rebel opposition and Russia basically ends the fighting in the war-torn agricultural belt that surrounds the Syrian capital, lifts a four-year siege and pardons the rebels but it also keeps the entire territory firmly in the hands of Damascus. READ THE STORY HERE
Leon Aron writes: Last Friday was Trump’s chance to lance the Russian boil. Instead, he and Tillerson dispensed anodynes, palliatives and outright placebos. We won’t have to wait long for the boil to grow larger and darker. - Politico
After a dizzying series of policy shifts on Syria, administration and congressional sources tell The Daily Beast that Team Trump is introducing the beginnings of a new strategy for Syria—one that, in the short term at least: leaves dictator Bashar al-Assad in power; acquiesces to the idea of “safe zones” proposed by Russia and its allies; leans on cooperation from Moscow, including the use of Russian troops to patrol parts of the country. – The Daily Beast
Syria-Trump is right: The ceasefire in three Syrian provinces announced after Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting in Hamburg is the first correct step that the United States has taken in the Middle East in more than 20 years, argues David P. Goldman. The Syrian deal should be understood in the context of Donald Trump’s earlier address in Warsaw, says Goldman, when the US President challenged Russia to “join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself.” READ THE STORY HERE
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