The U.S. request to the German troops on the ground has given the Federal government a cancellation. To is discussions on the nature and extent of other inserts provided. It is clear that The use would also have a political Dimension.
As always, the use of the armed forces will look like in Syria, one thing is clear: ground troops to combat the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IS) is not set. The government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday at the press conference of the government to request the United States to send soldiers to Syria. While you discuss with the American side, as the Engagement in the Region should continue to develop. There are a whole range of both military and civilian components, with which a stabilization in the Region could be achieved. However, “When I say that the government takes it in the eye, your previous actions in the framework of the Anti-IS coalition to continue, then more troops as we know no ground.”
Meanwhile, the American side made it clear that she thinks the primary of a combat mission. “The IS, you can push better with Syrian staff back,” said the Representative of the US government for Syria and the fight against the IS militia, James Jeffrey, the news Agency dpa. He had led last Friday, talks at the Federal foreign office. “But you need to have a certain international presence, the air support for logistics, training, and technical assistance.” The objective of the Mission is to contribute to stability in the North-East of Syria.
Engagement over the Syrian sky: the German defense Minister von der Leyen at the Bundeswehr base at Al-Asrak in Jordan
“Challenges IS disappeared by no means”
Basically, the Federal government is with the US Administration on the need for a further commitment agreement. “The challenge by the so-called Islamic state is still not disappeared,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Monday. “It is managed, areas to take off, he held formerly in Syria and Iraq. But the challenge of a threat by the Islamic state persists.” However, the Federal government, above all, remember, the current approach to continue, hinting Seibert: “The German approach is that we want our action to date as possible to continue.”
The Federal government in the face of the request, in principle, open, also declared the member of the Bundestag Roderich Kiesewetter, Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the foreign Affairs Committee and substitute member of the defence Committee. It is necessary soberly to evaluate the German interest, as well as the danger, a gravel weather compared to the DW. “Certainly, the conditions have to be analyzed: the legal framework, what skills, what Partner, what is the purpose of the possible deployment, use of resources, use of rules, reservations, period.” The Parliament is going to advise a reasonably deduced the Cabinet decision certainly comprehensively and critically, and then vote. “But I see no reason, from the outset, the use of reject or to welcome euphoric.”
The current use of
Until the end of October of this year, the Bundeswehr is engaged in the Syria war. After the mandate runs out. With four in Jordan, deployed Tornado Jets to air reconnaissance in the fight against the IS. A spokesman for the defense Ministry, according to the Jets flew almost 2000 sorties. There is also a refueling aircraft of the Bundeswehr, which provides the fighter jets of other Nations in the air with kerosene is.
In the centre of a possible discussion of ground troops, the question should be, how this could help the current – relative – to support ceasefire in Syria. In consequence of this truce last less refugees from Syria have arrived in Germany. It was in the year of 2016, according to the Federal office for Migration and refugees 266.000 people, decreased their number ever since. In 2018, approximately 44,000 Syrians came to Germany in the current year there have been approximately 19,500.
Syrian soldiers in front of a poster of President Bashar al-Assad, December 2017
Political solution as a prerequisite
In the discussion of the use of ground troops of the FDP Bundestag Deputy Alexander Graf Lambsdorff pointed out the basic difficulties of extended use. “As long as there is no political solution for Syria, we need to be on German ground troops to talk,” he told the “Welt am Sonntag”. If Europe is a larger contribution is possible only under a condition: “the fact that Europe is involved in the development of a new political order in Syria on an equal footing.”
Lambsdorff says it all: An increase in the use of the Bundeswehr would also be a political commitment. Because the fight against the IS, the German army would be based, at least immediately, the Assad government. For years this goes on with the utmost brutality against their opponents and did not spare the civilian population.
The government troops, stated in the World Report in 2019, the human rights organization “Human Rights Watch”, used a combination “of illegal tactics, including prohibited weapons, indiscriminate strikes and restrictions on the humanitarian aid”. So they tried to bring anti-government groups to surrender, a fact that had led to mass expulsions. “Anti-government, armed groups attacked indiscriminately to neighboring government-controlled areas and restricted the ability of the civilian population, to escape the hostilities.”
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Tug-of-war to reform of the Constitution
Currently, the government with Russian support against the last rebel stronghold in the country, in the province of Idlib. The heavy bombing also hit civilian targets. The UN is warning of a further humanitarian disaster: Three million people live officially in this area in the North-West of Syria.
An extended deployment of the Bundeswehr would inevitably raise the question of the relationship of Germany or Europe to the Assad government.
Currently, the Europeans are pushing for a constitutional reform in Syria, against the Syrian government is reluctant, however. This should also play into the discussion on the modalities of a possible use inside.