Strategic Patience
Were the situation reversed and the West was faced with an entire province or state occupied by Al Qaeda and its myriad of affiliates total war would commence and would not end until the targeted region was purged entirely of militants. Civilian causalities would either go uncounted and under-reported, or spun as a necessity in confronting an otherwise intolerable bastion of armed terrorism.
In fact similar narratives were used during the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan despite Washington's objectives being geopolitical rather than counter-terrorism related.
The strategic reality is that despite how well Damascus and its allies have weathered and overcome Washington's proxy war in Syria the US remains a potent military, political, and economic threat. Strategic patience, multiple "truce deals," and geopolitical concessions will be required to finally wrest Idlib back from foreign-backed terrorist forces currently entrenched there.
Terrorist forces have been concentrated in Idlib as Syrian forces pushed them out of virtually every other populated region of the country. Even the liberation of the City of Aleppo took years to achieve. Idlib is an entire governorate bordering Turkey which is still arming and protecting terrorist organizations both within Turkish territory itself and in Syrian territory occupied by Turkish forces.
While Turkey has recently shown signs of shifting objectives and moving closer to Russia geopolitically it will be a long and agonizing process to undo the tensions this 8-year conflict has created.
If there is one point of hope amid this still dangerous and deadly conflict it's that the Western media and inveterate war propagandists like Scott Lucas are no longer able to conceal the true nature of terrorists they have aided and abetted since 2011.
They will continue trying nonetheless but as Lucas just managed to do will succeed only in exposing more of the network the US and its allies used in their proxy war against Damascus thus further undermining regime change efforts in Syria and complicating similar attempts to target and overthrow other nations in the future.
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