Saudi Arabia says the crisis in
Syria has reached ‘catastrophic proportions’ and has called for a change in the ‘balance of forces’ on the ground.
Crown Prince Salman, Saudi Arabia’s deputy prime minister, speaking
at the opening of the annual Arab summit in Kuwait, stressed the need
for more support for rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad.
The annual meeting of the 22-member League of Arab States is
expected to agree on more humanitarian action in response to Syria’s
war, which has entered its fourth year and put a severe strain on
neighbouring countries hosting refugees.
Syrian opposition leaders have been lobbying the
Arab League
to give them Syria’s seat on the pan-Arab body, and to push Arab states
to approve the delivery of military hardware to them to boost their
fight against Assad.
Syria’s seat will remain vacant at the summit but the head of the
opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, said it should go
to his group.
He said: “Leaving Syria’s seat empty sends a message to (President
Bashar) al-Assad…‘Kill, kill the seat is waiting for you once the battle
is settled’,” Jarba told the Arab League summit. “Reality requires that
the Syrian embassies are also handed over to the National Coalition.”
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations peace mediator for Syria, said
on Monday it was unlikely that talks in Switzerland between the Syrian
government and opposition would resume soon.
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Here's the real problem: Until Europe is sure it won't be gobbled up by Putin along with more former behind the Iron Curtain countries, resources (especially military and logistics ones are going to be trained almost completely on what Russia is doing or planning to do instead of on Syria. So, until Putin stops what he is doing to Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Syria (as far as the U.S. and EU are concerned (Syrian Rebels at least might be on their own or with Arab countries mostly supplying them for awhile. (Is this part of the tactics of Putin and Iran and Hezbollah and Assad?) Maybe.
Also, if you combine what is happening in Egypt and Libya, and Syria with what is happening in the Crimea and Ukraine, this looks a whole lot more like a world war beginning than any other single thing at this point. And just like Hitler was at the center of World War II, Putin is at the center of the cause of this potential world war scenario in Syria, in Crimea, and in the Ukraine. He is also the main reason that 9 million people in Syria have been displaced both inside and outside of Syria.
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