Vladimir Putin has finally yielded to
the pressure of the United Nations and European countries on the Syrian
issue. The Russian president has said to his American counterpart that
Russia is now ready to accept a new president in Syria.
This new position of Russia came after
hundreds of defections within the Syrian military, some of which were
high-ranked officers. Besides, air force officers increasingly refuse
to attack civilians and rebels. In some regions, the fighting between
the free army’s rebels and the loyalist forces turned nearly to civil
war.
According to some Western journalists in
Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s regime no longer makes confidence in the
Alawite officers and in the joint militias Druzes-Alawi. Russia knows
that if it stops supporting Assad, the situation risks deterioration and
Moscow would be the big loser. Putin may have proposed for Assad and
some of his family members to leave Damascus for Russia. Moscow has also
chosen who is going to succeed to him and to protect the Alawite
minority.
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