Syria Conflict

Comment: Moscow wants to Die in Syria

The Syria talks in Geneva were already a few days after interrupted, even for civilians bloody war rages on. Who the conflict is currently in ignite, is more than clear, says Christoph Strack.

Now you will die next. And the war in Syria continues. Yes, just in the past few days, the Regime in Damascus with Russian support (one is almost tempted to write: with his Soviet comrade-in-arms) harder and more aggressive than in the past few weeks, and thus provides also increased for civilian casualties. People in Syria are dying on, they suffer, they run away. And the negotiations in Geneva are postponed.

Rapid progress were never to be expected

No one was allowed to expect that the talks quickly on a good Track would come. It took vielmonatiger preparatory work on all sides. Even in the previous week postponed the official start of the short-term. And then, one spoke not, but sat in different rooms and spoke with the same representative. Confidence could never stir up.

Christoph Strack is a correspondent in the capital Studio

The few days in Geneva have made it clear how very much these days everything is connected: Damascus and Geneva and London and Moscow and Berlin, politics and the economy, and Religion of the old European dream and the new nationalist populism, national and global. Yes, global. The shapes and globalisation: Not at the door knocking, the Terror live next door and can wars hybrid. And that we wegzappen want, when still died in Aleppo, Malaya or Homs.

In Syria rages of war. In Geneva, the failure of negotiations. In London is about more Milliardenhilfen for the suffering of the refugees spoken to. In Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel count. And, in Moscow, hugs Vladimir Putin, Edmund Stoiber, and chats with Horst Seehofer. The price of Oil falls, the uncertainty grows.

Actually, the hour of politics and diplomacy

Crises and Großkrisen are the hours of politics and diplomacy. Actually, and always. The same applies for the Syrian conflict today, even more than before the start of the Geneva talks. They remain the only previously conceivable context, the termination of the war. Now just from the 25. February, if the parties to the conflict are presumably again in Geneva.

So dramatic was the development of the past few days: The Oppositionsvertreter in Geneva, especially the High Verhandlungskomitee (HNC), demanded an end to attacks on civilians, and an end to the blockades of cities, where people are currently starving – at the same time strengthened the Assad army and the Russian air force of their attacks and allow the conflict to re-escalate.

US Secretary of state John Kerry raises two explicitly, and the peace process to undermine. As a scenario – everything is connected to everything – frightening. Frightening also, because again in Moscow, the key to a simmering conflict. And because Putin is no sign of political Action in the consensus signals. In a year, more frequently as Schicksalsjahr described, he puts on a military decision. And too many make a Pact with him.

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