Has Russia finally won its first war with United States? American forces will not land in Syria, nor will warships and the air-force bomb strategic assets of Syria government. Instead, Syria will handover its stockpile of chemical weapons to the United Nations.
When the American naval fleet in the Mediterranean recently moved closer to Syria, Russian warships and destroyers also moved and made strategic formations in the sea.
Russia has bases and strategic military assets in Syria. Moscow has not only continued to sell, train, and repair Syrian military resources, arms, and bases, but has remained its closest ally.
Russia made the proposal that Damascus hands over the stockpiles of chemical weapons as a way of showing cooperation and reducing the threat of more attacks on civilians.
Syria has agreed. Washington has stopped planning the war. The president of United States Barrack Obama reiterated the need to have a political solution through a diplomatic approach in Syria.
Intelligence gathered by Russian spy agency refute Assads forces launched a chemical weapon against Syrians, rather the rebels under command of foreign spies facilitated the attack.
The objective was to create the current call for action on Syria and it nearly succeeded. But a preemptive strategy by Moscow has stymied any military efforts against Al-Assads regime making Washington a lame duck in its near international police role and clamor for military action.
Moscow has scored a direct hit here, and Putin is the winner of the war. Washington’s poor ratings in Arab conflicts also makes CIA wary of another military involvement.
Washington has failed in Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, and Egypt. The world will continue to see Pentagon as the key ingredient of Arab conflicts and the trigger of global insecurity.
