The Western Press continues to support the elite transnational
financiers and to scorn the actions of President Trump. This attitude makes it
difficult to understand the progress made towards peace in Syria. Thierry
Meyssan looks at the agreements reached during the last five months and the
rapid progress on the ground.
It is with prudence and determination
that the Russian Federation and President Trump put a definitive end to the
domination of the world by transnational interests.
Convinced
that the balance of powers does not depend on their economics but rather on
their military capacities, President Putin has certainly reinvigorated the
quality of life for his compatriots, but he developed the Red Army before
making the Russians rich. On 1 March, he revealed to the world the principal
weapons in his arsenal and the beginning of his programme for economic
development.
In the days that followed,
the war was concentrated in the Eastern Ghouta. Russian Chief of Staff General
Valeri Guerassimov telephoned his US counterpart, General Joseph Dunford, and
told him that in the case of US military intervention, Russian forces would
target the 53 US ships in the Mediterranean and the Gulf, including their
nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Above all, he requested that President Trump be made aware of his
country’s new military capacities.
Finally,
the United States allowed the Syrian Arab Army and a few Russian infantry-men
to free the Ghouta of the jihadists who occupied it.
Only
the United Kingdom attempted to anticipate events by organising the « Skripal
affair » – if the current world order were to collapse, we would once again
have to employ the rhetoric of the Cold War, which set the kindly cowboys
against the big bad Russian Bears.
In
June, when the Syrian Arab Army, supported by the Russian Air Force, moved into
the South of the country, the US embassy in Jordan warned the jihadists that as
from now, they would have to defend themselves alone, without the aid or the
support of the Pentagon and the CIA.
On 16
July in Helsinki, Presidents Putin and Trump went a lot further. They broached
the subject of reconstruction, in other words, war damage. Donald Trump, as we
have been writing here for the last two years, is opposed to the Puritan
ideology, financial capitalism and the imperialism which is a direct result. He
rightly assumes that his country is in no way obliged to bear the consequences
of the crimes of his predecessors, of which his people had also been victims.
He affirms that these crimes had been committed at the instigation, and for the
profit, of the elite transnational financiers. He therefore considers that it
is for them to pay, even though no-one knows precisely how to make them do so.
The two Presidents also agreed to
facilitate the return of the refugees. By doing so, Donald Trump overthrew the
rhetoric of his predecessor, according to which they were escaping «
dictatorial repression » and not the invasion by the jihadists.
While
in the South of the country, the jihadists were themselves fleeing before the
Syrian and Russian forces, and a few desperate units of Daesh were committing
unimaginable atrocities, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergeï
Lavrov, and the Russian Chief of Staff, Valeri Guerassimov, undertook a tour of
Europe and the Middle East.
They
were welcomed as discreetly as possible in the European Union. Indeed,
according to the Western narrative, General Guerassimov is a conquistador who
invaded and annexed Crimea. He is therefore forbidden access to the Union, a
self-proclaimed defender of the « rule of law ». Unfortunately, since it was
too late to remove his name from the list of sanctions, the Union decided to
close its eyes to the grand principles and make an exception, allowing a visit
by the hero of the reunification of Crimea and Russia. The shame which swamped
the West-European leaders when faced with their own hypocrisy may explain the
absence of official photographs of the hearings for the Russian delegation.
The
Russian delegation resumed for each of its interlocutors a few of the decisions
taken at the Helsinki Summit. Acting wisely, it abstained from asking for
accounts concerning the role of each state during the war, calling on them only
to help end it – withdrawal of the special forces, cessation of the secret war,
suppression of the aid to the jihadists, return of the refugees, reopening of
the embassies. In particular, it confirmed that everyone could participate in
the reconstruction, all inclusive.
As soon as the delegation
left, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron craftily interrogated
the Pentagon in order to find out if it was true that President Donald Trump
intended to make certain transnational companies pay (KKR, Lafarge, etc.) –
just to destabilise the folks on the other side of the Atlantic. The attitude
of President Macron, ex-bank executive, is all the more deplorable in that he
tried to symbolise his good faith by offering 44 tonnes of humanitarian aid to
the Syrian population, transmitted by the Russian army.
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In
the Middle East, the visit by the Russian delegation was more widely covered by
the media. Lavrov and Guerassimov were able to announce the creation of five
committees for the return of the refugees. Each committee, in Egypt, Lebanon,
Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, includes representatives of the host state, together
with Russian and Syrian delegates. Yet no-one dared to ask the hard question –
why would a committee like this not include the European Union?
Concerning
the reopening of the embassies, the United Arab Emirates stole a march on the
Westerners and their allies by negotiating the reopening of their own.
What
was left was the Israëli preoccupation with obtaining Syria’s departure from
the Iranian military advisors and the pro-Iranian militias, including
Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu multiplied his return trips to and
from Moscow and Sochi in order to defend his cause. We may remember that
Guerassimov had ironised about the nerve of the beaten Israëlis demanding the
removal of the Iranian victors. As for Lavrov, he diplomatically ducked behind
a refus de principe concerning interference in Syria’s sovereignty.
Russia
solved the problem – Russian military police re-installed UNO forces along the
line of demarcation between Syria and Israël, from which they had been ejected
four years ago. During this whole period, they were replaced by Al-Qaïda,
supported by Tsahal. Behind the line of demarcation, in Syrian territory, Russia
has also installed eight military observation posts. In this way, Moscow can
guarantee both to the UNO and Syria that the jihadists will not come back, and
to Israël that Iran will not attack from Syria.
Israël,
which until now had been betting on the defeat of the Syrian Arab Republic, and
qualified its President as a « butcher », suddenly admitted by the voice of its
Minister for Defence, Avigdor Liberman, that Syria was the victor of the
conflict, and that President el-Assad was its legitimate head. In order to
demonstrate his good will, Liberman ordered the bombing of a group of Daesh
jihadists that until now he had kept in reserve.
Little
by little, the Russian Federation and the White House are putting some order
into international relations, and convincing various protagonists to withdraw
from the war, and even to offer bids for the reconstruction. From its side, the
Syrian Arab Army continues the liberation of it territory. It remains for
President Trump to manage to withdraw his troops from the South (Al-Tanf) and
the North of the country (East of the Euphrates), and for President Erdoğan to
abandon the jihadist refugees in the North-West (Idleb) to their destiny.
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intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace
Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last
two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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