Russia's devastating air campaign over the past month -- over 1,600 targets destroyed according to Moscow -- has no doubt caused apoplexy in Washington, London, Paris, Ankara, Riyadh and Doha. An urgent stop to their "losses" had to be invoked. But the foreign sponsors can't say it openly otherwise that gives the game away about their criminal involvement in Syria's war.
Combat report: Over 1,600 terror targets destroyed in 1 month of Russia's #Syria op - MoD http://on.rt.com/6v1k
RT@RT_comThis perspective most likely explains the hastily convened "peace conference" in Vienna. US Secretary of State John Kerry's apparent concern to "stop the bloodshed" does not seem credible as the primary motive. Why the concern now after nearly five years of bloodshed?
It is not about a "quest for peace" as the BBC reported. The move is more credibly about Washington and its allies maneuvering to give their regime-change assets in Syria a reprieve from Russia's firepower. One of the main points agreed in Vienna this weekend is the implementation of a "nation-wide ceasefire."
Another indicator of what is really going on are reports this week of the large-scale airlifting of jihadist mercenary groups out of Syria. According to senior Syrian army intelligence, up to 500 mercenaries were flown to Yemen onboard Turkish, Qatari and Emirati planes. The fighters were brought to Yemen's southern city of Aden from where they were dispatched to battle zones inside Yemen by the American-coordinated Saudi coalition. The US-Saudi coalition is waging war in Yemen to reinstall the regime of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ousted by Houthi rebels earlier this year.
Aden is under the military control of Saudi and Emirati forces and Yemen's airspace has been closed off by the coalition coordinated by US and British military planners based in Saudi capital Riyadh. It is inconceivable that plane loads of jihadists could be flown into southern Yemen without the knowledge of Washington.
So what we are seeing here is a concerted effort by Washington and its allies to stem their covert military losses in Syria. Sending in American Special Forces -- a seemingly dramatic U-turn by Obama to put boots on the ground in Syria -- is just one part of a wider effort to forestall Russian success in stabilizing Syria. These US forces are not about a "deepening of American involvement in a war [Obama] has tried to avoid," as the New York Times would have us believe. They are being sent in to act as human shields against Russian airstrikes.
The putative ceasefire under a so-called peace process is another element of the US-led salvage operation. The real agenda is about giving Western, Turk and Arab-sponsored jihadists a space to regroup, and if needs be, flown out of the Syrian theatre to resume their imperialist function in Yemen and, no doubt, elsewhere when required.
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