What will happen after the Battle of Aleppo? What has the battle done to the regional and international balance of power, in light of the collapse of all international humanitarian norms and laws? Russia made it clear from the outset that there was no choice but to win in Aleppo no matter the cost, including perpetrating war crimes. However, what will Russia do with its tainted victory? Has this "achievement" prepared Russia to negotiate with the US over a grand bargain? Or is this just one battle that has been won, and not the war, making this bargain still far from reach and portending more bloodletting in a fragmented Syria? The time between Election Day and inauguration of the new president in the US is known as the transition, which acts as extra time for the axis of Russia, Iran, and the Damascus regime and their allies, also backed by China, to vie for a bloody settlement in Syria. During this time, they can be confident the US will be powerless to act, even vis-à-vis war crimes. Thus, the axis prepared the ground for US president-elect Donald Trump to help him wash his hands clean of the Syrian issue, having benefited greatly from the dithering and prevarication of outgoing president Obama on Syria. Both presidents are isolationists when it comes to Syria, which has emboldened the members of the Damascus axis to settle the battle for Aleppo at any cost. The axis considers the outcome in Aleppo to be a victory, at the same time a defeat for rival Gulf Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia. But the attitudes of the GCC countries are divergent; their peoples are preoccupied with their future and their ambitions, and do not want to be dragged to Arab conflicts from Syria to Libya via Yemen. For this reason, there is a great deal of ambiguity surrounding both official and grassroots attitudes in the Gulf, where a detachment is felt from non-Gulf Arab countries. Whether the Gulf role in the conflict zones was a mistake or not, the Gulf people and leaders now want to preserve their calm oasis surrounded by a sea of flames. For their part, the peoples of the countries whose fires were fed and had oil poured on them, they feel they were the victims of manipulation and exploitation, which have led to the Afghanization of their nations and the fragmentation of their social fabric. So what lies in store for the region?
Key powers like China, who is playing a behind the scenes role in the Arab region, recently joined the global war on terror, according to what its envoys have started to state publicly and overtly. China sees the battles in Iraq's Mosul and Syria's Aleppo as part of the same effort against Islamist terrorism, and is a strategic partner of Russia in this context. Traditionally silent, China recently started to go public with its political positions, if not its logistical support for military operations in Syria.
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В День парашютиста героем рубрики «Знай наших» стал сотрудник вневедомственной охраны столичного главка Росгвардии младший лейтенант полиции Александр С.
«Краснодар» и московское «Динамо» проведут сегодня первые матчи в Кубке России
