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Trump Ends Syrian Regime Change Campaign
• AntiWar.com by Justin RaimondoThe headline in the Washington Post said it all: "Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow." The madness that has infected what passes for journalism today could not be more starkly dramatized: everything is seen through the distorting lens of Russophobia. It doesn't matter that that the program had failed to achieve its ostensible goal, and that the US-vetted rebels had for the most part defected to al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and ISIS. Atrocities committed by the "moderate" rebels go unmentioned. That real experts on the region like Joshua Landis hailed the move as a step toward a peaceful settlement is ignored. The only thing that matters is that, as one unnamed "current official" cited in the article puts it, "Putin won in Syria."
From this perspective, the Syrian people are merely pawns in a geopolitical game between Washington and Moscow.