The author provides some background on this proposed meeting beginning on the 22nd in Switzerland, and as an independent journalist gives a political analysis of the interests involved. The major players behind this meeting appear are US and Russia.
A successful agreement does not look encouraging for a number of reasons that he lists. On the other hand, Empire directors are realizing that the prospects on the ground do not look promising for their strategy to force Assad from power and establish a more acceptable regime in Syria, plus the fact that their Western and Saudi sponsored terrorist groups are fighting each other and spreading chaos in the region.
The Saudis appear to be the only member of the US-led axis that still retains a commitment to the covert military agenda for regime change. Washington and its other allies have sobered up to the realpolitik that regime change in Syria is not going to happen through the battlefield and wanton acts of terrorism.
That’s why Clinton’s successor, John Kerry, told the so-called Friends of Syria gathering in Paris last weekend that «there is no military solution, only a political one». The proper way to perceive Kerry’s reasoning is not one of moral exhortation, but more a jaundiced resignation to reality by the US.