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“Russia, at least in the short term, and Turkey both have an interest in avoiding a full-scale military operation and ultimately reaching an outcome that could be similar to the one in Busra al-Sham, where factions handed over their weapons,” writes the Carnegie Middle East Center’s Hadeel al-Saidawi.
“Now that the last remnants of the 2011 anti-Assad popular uprising are being methodically crushed, [Russian President Vladimir Putin] is intent on recruiting western support for so-called reconciliation plans, as well as western contributions to Syria’s ‘reconstruction’, all of which would take place under Russia’s control,” Natalie Nougayrede writes for the Guardian.
“The situation in Syria reveals the profound ambivalence of Americans toward the Middle East and the declining importance of what U.S. officials have long considered Washington’s interests there: oil, Israel, and U.S. dominance of the area to ensure the other two,” CFR’s Steven A. Cook writes for Foreign Policy
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