The master plan, under the cover of bombing the fake "Caliphate" lair in Raqqa, would ideally open the way to a de facto, Erdogan-concocted "safe zone" across the Jarablus corridor, which in reality is a no-fly zone able to harbor a gaggle of "moderate rebels," a.k.a. hardcore Salafi-jihadis of the al-Nusra kind.
In parallel, expect a torrent of Turkish spin centered on "protecting" the Turkmen minority in northern Syria, actually Turkey's fifth column, heavily infiltrated by Islamo-fascists of the Grey Wolves kind. It started with Ankara accusing Moscow of "ethnic cleansing". Erdogan will go no holds barred appealing even for R2P ("responsibility to protect" NATO liberation, Libyan-style.)
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And here's where NATO is totally in sync with Ankara; after all, a "safe zone" protected by NATO crammed with "moderate rebels" is the perfect tool to turbo-charge the breakup of the Syrian state.
It's not legal but we don't careNATO's Syria intervention is of course absolutely illegal.
UN Security Council resolution 2249 does not fall under Chapter 7 of the UN charter. Yet once again creative language -- French-style rhetorical artifice -- blurs the non-justification of military might by conveying the impression the UNSC approves it.
And that's exactly how David of Arabia Cameron interpreted it. Obfuscation is inbuilt in the process, with London pledging to work side by side with Moscow.
Resolution 2249 is yet another case of international law reduced to rubble. For these -- sporadic -- UK and French air strikes, covered by the pretext of hitting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, were never authorized by Damascus, and the UNSC was not even consulted. Russia, on the other hand, has been fully authorized by Damascus.
On top of this, the CDO is no coalition of 60 or 65 countries, as the Obama administration is frantically spinning. They are actually a gang of seven: Germany, France, UK, US, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. In a nutshell; a pared-down-to-the-bone NATO-GCC compound.
Who's actually fighting the fake "Caliphate" on the ground are the SAA; Hezbollah; Iraqi Shi'ites under Iranian advisers; and outside of the "4+1" alliance (Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq plus Hezbollah) a coalition of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and smaller Arab and Christian militias, now united under a political umbrella, the Syrian Democratic Council, which Ankara predictably abhors.
Ankara provocations won't stop -- including "creative" ways of denying the passage of "Syrian Express" Russian ships through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles without violating the Montreux Convention.
So NATO's "new" master plan, twisting and turning, still slouches towards the prime objective: "liberating," Libya-style, northern Syria and allow it to be occupied either by "moderate rebels" or in the worst case scenario Syrian Kurds, which in theory would be easily manipulated.
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh would be in this case "contained" (Obama administration lingo) not in eastern Syria but actually expelled to the Iraqi western desert, where they would solidify a Sunnistan. Erdogan also badly wants a Sunnistan, but his version is even more ambitious, including Mosul.
This is all happening while a gaggle of Syrian "moderate" rebels met -- of all places - in Wahhabi/Salafi-Jihadi Central Riyadh to choose a delegation of 42 people to "select the negotiators" of future Syrian peace talks.
Once again they agreed "Assad must go" even during the transition process. And that "foreign forces" must leave Syria. Obviously that excludes the tsunami of mercenaries paid and weaponized by Riyadh alongside Doha and Ankara.
Any sound mind would ask how the House of Saud gets away with it: choosing who is a "moderate" in a nation they are heavily involved in destabilizing. Simple: because Riyadh owns a gaggle of US lobbyists and handsomely rewards PR gurus such as Edelman, the largest privately owned PR agency on the planet.
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