BIDEN NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT HAS WON WAR AND START PEACE TALKS
February 1st, 2021
The US new administration of President Joe Biden has a real opportunity to help forge peace in Syria, and if it succeeds, it could reap a series of important foreign policy goals.
This Levant country needs calm and reconstruction. For that to happen, the Biden team needs to recognise that the Baathist regime of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has won this conflict, and still has rights in areas controlled by Kurds.
Washington needs to start dealing with Damascus, a real politick initiative that could hasten the end of the civil war in its last remaining major ...
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