Saturday, February 06, 2016

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA AND THE SITUATION AROUND ALEPPO - THREATS OF A TURKISH, AND PERHAPS SAUDI, INVASION


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK


Sounds as though you are prepared against some possibly coming events, perhaps a Syrian invasion by Turkey and even Saudi Arabia?

The latest Su-35 aircraft and air defence systems including the S-400 should discourage any foolishness. Iran’s involvement too is a serious discouragement to the Saudis.

Things appear to be coming to a head in the area north of Aleppo, and it is going to be very hard for the instigators of all this past terror to see the Syrian army and its allies finally turning the critical balance.

That border will be closed, ending the source of so many horrors, but Turkey is going to be very unhappy about it. It loses its stolen oil, loses its goal of destroying Assad, and sees some of its other plans for expansion of influence stopped.

Against all the nay-saying and misrepresentations of Washington, Russia’s effort appears to be succeeding handsomely. America is bound to be unhappy, too, because it failed in public where Russia succeeded and because it will not achieve the aim of all its past efforts, toppling the government of Syria.

One just hopes the United States does not stick its clumsy hand in still more.