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The arrival of the first Russian diplomat in Damascus since the fall of Bashar al-Assad is launching negotiations on Moscow in Syria.
By Paul Rings and Christina Goldbaum
Paul Sonne has in Berlin and Christina Goldbaum from Damascus.
The time had come to bend the knee, or at least bend to reality.
A delegation of Russian diplomats arrived on Tuesday in a caravan of Blanca SUV for a Damascus summit and a non-unfeasible task: throw the Bas al-Assad.
To do this, the delegation won other people that the Russian Army had bombarded without mercy, helping Mr. Al-Assad for years.
Ahmed al-Shara, who had survived a decade of Russian air attacks, emerges as an interim leader in Syria. He argued in the presidential palace and faced Kremlin’s envoys for an expected calculation.
The conversations that followed, the first between Moscow and Damascus since the end of the war of almost 14 years, are resolved. But they represented the beginning of potentially written negotiations on the role, if necessary, Russia will play in Syria of the postwar period, after having lost its candidacy to maintain Mr. Al-Assad in power.
The Assembly demonstrated the type of geopolitical commerce of horses that began following the civil war of Syria, with the perspective of remakeing the Middle East. Stony Eyed Realpolitik.
“I think the general air in Damascus is, ‘We Syrians don’t need a fight with anyone at this point, including our former enemies,’” said Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. “So de-escalation and pragmatism are the names of the game.”
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