Here is the inherent failure of such articles...they all truly fail to learn from previous Russian "ceasefires both in eastern Ukraine and Syria"..."ceasefires Russia style" are basically designed to hold the opponents in place and if they do fight then blame them for ceasefire violations ALL the while preparing for future major ground offensives...which is in now in fact what is ongoing.....Originally Posted by Azor
In the announced memorandum there is not a single control/punishment regime Assad and or the Russians and or Iran/Shia militias in fact violate both the ceasefires and safe zones ie via shelling's and or artillery.
AND it does not stop Assad from continuing to attacks areas not in the safe zone....
BTW find it interesting they mention Merkel....as she "envisioned" safe zones to be totally free from attacks, shelling's and even Russia air strikes...a semi form of NFZ was what she was pushing.....AND she also stated that a safe zone had to have a control mechanism in place which this Russian/Iranian/Turkish agreement certainly does not have.
AND if one really reads the small and very fine print (almost invisible) the US cannot fly/crawl/drive over/under/through these zones WITHOUT Russian MoD approval....
WOW...confirms that the ruse of a safe zones was nothing but a precursor to new Russian and Iranian offensive operations..
Clashes erupt in northwest Syria hours after de-escalation zones established by Russia, Iran, Turkey
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/id...medium=Social#
AND the Trump WH and even Trump himself is even more silent than Obama was...
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