Syria part 5c: Where We are Now.

Where we are right at this moment is this:

Since Da'esh wasn't doing well enough, and since America needed to contain the Frankenstinian monster it had created, it started funding so called 'moderate' (nothing moderate about them) rebels.

These are groups like Al- Qaeda and Al- Shabaab that are every bit as bad as Da'esh. What's in a name right? They might even be Da'esh!

However, the US, justifying itself by it's continued narrative of 'Assad is a butcher', 'Assad must go' and 'Assad committed chemical weapons attack on his own people'; have been openly funding rebels (OK, so more openly once Russia started killing them). These rebels, despite the fact, (As Assad noted in an interview) that they carry guns and shoot people, kidnap, have no business in a civilised society. These rebels are thought to be the 'political opposition' to Assad in US Foreign Policy and there is diplomatic pressure from the US and others, to have discussions about Syria's 'future without Assad', holding these people up as 'political opposition'.

It is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.

But, the Russians have been blowing these 'rebels' to high hell. There are some reports the rebels are their target which would be sensible.

However, one of the areas the rebels have held, the Northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which is where they are supplied through Turkey. If Aleppo falls, which it is almost definitely going to, Turkey will not be able to supply the rebels anymore. Which means:

No 'political opposition'.

Absolutely no opportunity to get rid of Assad with an intact pretense of 'legitimacy', unless they perhaps create a new political opposition, and quickly!

There seems to be little that the West can do with Russia there even if rebels stayed alive.

If Turkey cannot supply Da'esh and the rebels. It is it. That is the end of the war for any hope of America successfully controlling Syria.

Which is why Turkey is getting ansy and shelling Kurds in Northern Syria, and talking about invading with Saudi Arabia.

It probably won't happen though. They are afraid of Hezbollah!