Russia campaign forced West to accept Syria truce: Analyst
The recently announced Syria truce deal was achieved in the light of Russia’s “successful” air campaign in the country which brought the West to the negotiation table, says an American political analyst.
After days of negotiation, diplomats from a group of countries in Munich, including the US, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, agreed on Friday to seek a temporary "cessation of hostilities" in Syria within a week.
The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) also agreed to "accelerate and expand" deliveries of humanitarian aid to various besieged Syrian towns.
“We are now sitting on pins and needles after the Munich meeting,” Jim W. Dean told Press TV on Sunday. “We have not really a ceasefire but something called a cessation of hostilities which is kind of preliminary to a ceasefire.”
According to the Veterans Today columnist, this is good news for civilians who have been under terrorists’ siege in several Syrian towns.
However, Dean noted that the main reason behind the deal is Russia’s military campaign in Syria, conducted upon a request by Damascus since September last year.
“The Russian campaign has been successful beyond anyone’s imagination. It has been professionally conducted,” despite all the attempts by the West to make it look harmful to civilians, he said.
Moscow’s “successful” anti-terror campaign has strengthened Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s control on the war-torn country, Dean further explained, allowing him to stay in power as the country’s legal president, something Washington is firmly opposed to.
Saudi, Turkey to undermine peace
Dean said that countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey who also have a say in the matter are against such a deal and will attempt to derail it, which is why many people are not optimistic about the effectiveness of the proposed truce.
Dean cited Turkey’s continued shelling of Kurdish positions inside Syria, along with Saudi Arabia’s readiness to deploy troops to Syria as indications that the truce is not likely to hold up.
Such actions would send the situation into a dangerous stage “that could explode into a much wider war beyond anyone’s imagination.”
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has claimed the lives of some 470,000 people and left 1.9 million injured, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
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