{"id":3840,"date":"2018-06-28T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2018-06-28T21:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:37:42","slug":"the-us-has-given-up-to-overthrow-of-assad-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/28\/the-us-has-given-up-to-overthrow-of-assad-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"THE US HAS GIVEN UP TO OVERTHROW OF ASSAD IN SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3264\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/SYRIA-CONFLICT.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Independent<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Fisk<\/p>\n<p>It will be called the great betrayal. And it was a long time coming. But the grim message from Washington to the anti-Assad fighters of southern Syria \u2013 that they could expect no help from the West in their further struggle against Assad\u2019s regime or the Russians \u2013 will one day figure in the history books.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a turning point in the Syria war, a shameful betrayal if you happen to belong to the wreckage of the \u201cFree Syrian Army\u201d and its acolytes around the city of Deraa, and a further victory for the Assad regime in its ambition to retake all of rebel Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Already Russian missiles and Syrian bombs are embracing the countryside south and east of Deraa and outside Quneitra and Sweida after the opposition fighters refused a negotiated peace last week. Refugees are again fleeing the towns.<\/p>\n<p>But the words of the American message to the fighters, seen by Reuters and so far not denied by the US, are both bleak and hopeless: \u201cYou should not base your decisions on the assumption or expectation of a military intervention by us \u2026 We in the United States government understand the difficult conditions you are facing and still advise the Russians and the Syrian regime not to undertake a military measure that violates the [de-escalation] zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at:https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/syria-assad-regime-us-support-syria-rebels-israel-golan-heights-a8417716.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk It will be called the great betrayal. And it was a long time coming. But the grim message from Washington to the anti-Assad fighters of southern Syria \u2013 that they could expect no help from the West in their further struggle against Assad\u2019s regime or the Russians \u2013 will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/28\/the-us-has-given-up-to-overthrow-of-assad-in-syria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE US HAS GIVEN UP TO OVERTHROW OF ASSAD IN SYRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}