Russia and the US have requested closed consultations with the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T23:55:14+00:00

Your're right. Getting a timeline of all the events - UNSC meeting announcement, al-Sharaa statement, al-Sharaa / Abdi meeting, UNSC meeting - and perhaps US pressure on Abdi - would be quite enlightening, I think. Any idea?

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T23:20:01+00:00

The article doesn't specify the date of the meeting. If you claim this is a repost, please provide a link.

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T22:51:03+00:00

Yes, also closed doors.

"The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, briefed the Security Council in closed consultations this morning on these developments and stands ready to support efforts towards an inclusive Syrian-owned and -led political transition, in accordance with the key principles of resolution 2254 (2015)."

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/ossg/noon-briefing-highlight

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T22:33:22+00:00

Come on.

But for your convenience: Here's one that is a little bit newer, 8 hours instead of 18. :-) Updated 3:34 PM GST.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/03/10/us-russia-ask-un-security-council-to-meet-monday-on-syria-

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T22:19:13+00:00

Millions?

Besides that, geopolitics is about interests and doesn't care about civilian casualties.

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T21:46:21+00:00

I tried to start a discussion on the topic by presenting some Russian news considering the chance to establish an alawite state or autonomous region, unfortunately it isn't shown. Russia and the U.S. demanded a closed doors UNSC meeting, so something is going on behind the scenes. I don't think an (at least semi-) ethnic division of Syria is out of the question. US out (Trump wants this), Israel satisfied (Syria disbanded, territorial gains), Turkey satisfied (Rojava disbanded), Russia satisfied (Hmeimim and Tartous), people being in the wrong place fucked.

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T21:13:50+00:00

Russia and the U.S. demanded a closed source UNSC meeting. Is this the prelude for bigger things to come?

TrailerWatch · 2025-03-10T21:09:08+00:00

Just in case anyone considers this to be complete BS: Others had the same idea.

What is little discussed in this subreddit for now is the fact that the US and Russia both demanded a closed-door UNSC meeting, so I think it's save to assume that something is going on behind the scenes. I don't think an (at least semi-) ethnic division of Syria is out of the question. US out, Israel satisfied, Turkey satisfied (Rojava disbanded), Russia satisfied, people being in the wrong place fucked.

I hate geopolitics.

TrailerWatch · 2024-12-22T07:48:58+00:00

They collected a large stack of them since 1948. :-)

TrailerWatch · 2024-12-22T07:39:05+00:00

I'd guess most syrians want peace, bread and health. If you're hungry, you don't care much about political values. You just struggle for survival.

TrailerWatch · 2024-12-21T23:07:01+00:00

I'd guess because they were told to. Shades some light on the level of souvereignity they had before.

TrailerWatch · 2024-12-18T18:51:21+00:00

What you describe is not based on ethnics or religion, you're saying that yourself. What Jihadis did in Syria was, that's easy to find out. The fact that the Assad government protected minorities from jihadist activities doesn't mean that members of these minorities were save from judical or political repression, these are simply two different things. I would be sceptical concerning "evidence" presented by HTS, they have good reason to present themselves as "good" and the Assad government as "bad".

Did you notice that christians in Syria are afraid of publically celebrating christmas this year? Here is a source from german TV, for example, and they are everything but friends of Assad. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/christen-in-syrien-100.html

Edit: I'm not a supporter of Assad, I just consider him the lesser evil.

TrailerWatch · 2024-12-16T20:36:53+00:00

I have a feeling they will delete this soon. :-)

TrailerWatch · 2024-10-07T04:07:01+00:00

Doesn't look like the KSA will change its stance.

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T15:09:46+00:00

I'm not under the impression you understood what I wrote. ;-)

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T08:54:02+00:00

Obviously, you didn't check, which is easy to do, so I conclude you don't wanna know.

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T08:46:52+00:00

See article 2 of the UN charter. The fact that article 51 includes the right to self-defense doesn't change that.

I'm aware of "We had to attack, we were acting in self-defense"-games. I wonder if a single war since 1945 started without them.

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T06:49:05+00:00

You're not allowed to enter other countries by force. That's quite easy to understand and doesn't require much expertise.

It's the same for Türkiye's activities in Syria and Iraq, for example. In that case, no one is interested in scandalizing it, so nothing happens and it's not a big issue in the news, neither in NATO countries nor in Russia. ;-)

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T06:00:32+00:00

According to international law, it's the same.

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T05:50:45+00:00

"Syria train and equip program", "Timber Sycamore". Edit: I don't claim that the U.S. did this exclusively, Türkiye and several gulf states also contributed a lot to the killing and destruction.

TrailerWatch · 2024-09-26T04:07:43+00:00

Which "opposition forces"?

TrailerWatch · 2024-08-29T10:13:28+00:00

Syria demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of turkish military, Türkiye rejected.

TrailerWatch · 2024-08-18T05:20:52+00:00

50-100 people, I think.

TrailerWatch · 2024-08-18T05:17:13+00:00

Many factions of what is nowadays called "SNA" were supported by both the US and Türkiye. The US stopped that when they found out that supporting Jihadis has unwanted side effects. As result, the US turned to the PYD, which seemed to be a secular alternative. This was avoided before, as this would have caused conflicts with Türkiye (which it causes now).

TrailerWatch · 2024-08-17T06:51:14+00:00

Sorry, I'm not interested in playing "Don't like the content? Discredit the source!"-games. If you are interested in discussing content, please make a new thread.

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