Category Syria
The Long-Short Game in Syria
The US, Israel and Turkey have accelerated bombing in Syria since the departure of Bashar Assad. Israel claims it has destroyed Syria’s navy and increased its military footprint in Southern Syria. Israel claims no pretense of soft power. Should the US do the same? To date, it has decided it should. It has struck at […]
Trump’s Syrian gambit – Chance for a grand bargain between great powers?
I’ve always found it ironic that the Republican Party, the great defenders of Christianity have it out for every secular ruler in the Middle East. Those leaders that protect Christians from slaughter and even take them into their Government have been earmarked for eradication time and again by neoconservatives in GOP while alliances with right-wing […]
The Florida Squeeze 