Ein Lob für Trump

Rar sind dieser Tage die Stimmen, die dem amerikanischen Präsidenten ein Lob aussprechen. Aber es gibt sie:

The Assad regime has praised the Trump Administration’s halt to CIA support to Syria’s rebels, saying it is a “start” towards ending the 76-month uprising.

National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said, “All these steps are the start to solving the Syrian crisis, and without that there is no solution.” (...)

He said the regime intends to reach more “reconciliation agreements” — its term for the capitulation of opposition areas — across Syria: “The Syrian government and allied countries are working on many details for the…de-escalation zones to pave the way for real reconciliations. We will not accept anything less than that.”

Over the past years, a combination of sieges, airstrikes and bombardment, and ground offensives have forced the surrender and forced displacement of people from eastern Aleppo city; Damascus suburbs such as Darayya, Moadamiyah, Barzeh, and Qaboun; the al-Wa’er section of Homs city.

Haidar proclaimed victory, “All the American attempts to fund and arm and train groups it called moderate factions…have failed.”