Saturday, February 6, 2016

Joe Lauria — Risking World War III in Syria

After Saudi-backed Syrian rebels balked at peace talks and the Russian-backed Syrian army cut off Turkish supply lines to jihadists and other Syrian rebels, the U.S. and its Mideast Sunni “allies” appear poised to invade Syria and force “regime change” even at the risk of fighting Russia, a gamble with nuclear war, writes Joe Lauria
Banking on Putin to back down. Russia is probably not going to launch WWIII over Syria, which would involve mutually insured destruction. But ….
 
Consortium News
Risking World War III in Syria
Joe Lauria

For a finer grain strategic analysis see:

ISW — Institute for the Study of War
Assad Regime Gains In Aleppo Alter Balance Of Power In Northern Syria
Chris Kozak

1 comment:

Peter Pan said...

Sounds like this will be a Turkish adventure, and they will do the heavy lifting.