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Lee Rogers
Daily Stormer
July 8, 2017
The biggest news coming out of the highly anticipated meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was a ceasefire deal for southwestern Syria.
Here are the details.
The United States, Russia and Jordan reached a ceasefire and “de-escalation agreement” for southwestern Syria on Friday, as the U.S. government under President Donald Trump made its first attempt at peacemaking in the country’s six-year-old civil war.
The ceasefire, due to start at noon Damascus time (0900 GMT) on Sunday, was announced after a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit of major economies in the German city of Hamburg.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the area covered by the ceasefire affects Jordan’s security and is a “very complicated part of the Syrian battlefield.”
Russia and Iran are the main international backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while Washington supports some of the rebel groups fighting to topple him.
“I think this is our first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria, and as a result of that we had a very lengthy discussion regarding other areas in Syria that we can continue to work together on to de-escalate the areas,” Tillerson said.
Previous similar ceasefires have failed to hold for long and it was not clear how much the actual combatants — Assad’s government and the main Syrian rebel forces in the southwest — are committed to this latest effort.
It appears as if Trump and Putin had excellent chemistry. The meeting which was only scheduled for around 30 minutes, ended up lasting over two hours.
This ceasefire deal is a very important step forward. If Trump is able to make this work, it will set the stage for more important deals. Previous ceasefire agreements fell apart for a variety of reasons. Mainly because it appeared as if the American side was not acting in good faith. The worst incident occurred when American jets bombed the Syrian army in September of 2016. The bombing was dubiously called an “accident” by the American side.
Unfortunately, there’s only so much Trump can control. Even though the Russian kookspiracy narrative is no longer in the news, he is still battling people inside the government who are opposed to his presidency. It is possible that we could see people within the deep state try to sabotage his attempts to bring peace to Syria. Many of these people have no interest in peace because their careers rely upon the United States being engaged in perpetual war.
Either way, this ceasefire deal is a definite step in the right direction. It sounds as if the two leaders will be able to make more progress whenever they hold their first official bilateral meeting.
