{"id":3353,"date":"2018-10-25T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salonsyria.com\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2018-10-29T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:58:00","slug":"aron-lund-on-critical-turing-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salonsyria.com\/en\/aron-lund-on-critical-turing-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Turning Points: External Leverage and Its Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Looking back at seven years of Syrian civil war, it is striking how many pivotal moments have been the result of foreign intervention and external meddling.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">That is not to say events since 2011 have played out according to a foreign script. Portraying Syria\u2019s civil war as a process masterminded by foreigners would be unfair to Syrians\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and, given the state of Syria, probably also to the foreigners. In reality, although many outside powers have tried to rearrange the Syrian battlefield, most of their grand ambitions have sunk without rescue into Syria\u2019s swamp of competing factions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">But although local realities have fixed the conflict\u2019s terms and frustrated many meddling outsiders, Syrians have had little power over their fate. Once it was clear that President Bashar al-Assad would not bend to the demands of his opponents and that those opponents had waded so far into the struggle that they could no longer see a way back, events began to unfold according to their own infernal logic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">In that spiral of state breakdown and social polarization, what one side felt to be a desperate act of survival would be perceived by the other as unconscionable escalation and met in kind. The structural makeup of the warring sides largely determined their behavior from 2011 onward, with many little situational upsets and gambles but few big-picture surprises \u2013\u00a0except for those that came from outside Syria\u2019s borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">In retrospect, some such interventions stand out as especially important. Most have of course been thoroughly dissected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">For example, the <span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tcf.org\/content\/report\/red-line-redux-putin-tore-obamas-2013-syria-deal\/\"><span style=\"color: black;\">2013 chemical weapons crisis<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"> has gained near-mythical significance in both Syrian and US politics, becoming a strange sort of shibboleth. But though the events of that summer and autumn were undeniably important, it is hard to shake the impression that President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to settle for a Russian-inspired deal instead of firing missiles into Syria did more to disperse the fog of politics from existing circumstances than to break new ground.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Had Obama opted to pull the trigger anyway, for a one-off display of overwhelming dominance, Assad\u2019s regime would likely have received one more disfiguring scar, the conflict would have taken a few extra spins, and the question of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons program would have lingered as an equal or greater problem than it is today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">But there is little reason to assume that the conflict\u2019s fundamentals would have evolved along radically different paths. Given the way the regime worked and the opposition did not, Obama had no credible path to victory on terms compatible with US politics \u2013 he knew it, and was trapped by that understanding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">In some sense, the 2013 crisis was like Assad\u2019s December 2016 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/analysis\/2016\/12\/13\/fall-eastern-aleppo\"><span style=\"color: black;\">retaking of eastern Aleppo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">: a\u00a0devastating turning point for the opposition and its backers, but also, ultimately, an unsurprising outcome of the war\u2019s configuration at that moment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Less obvious, but no less important, were the roads not taken.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">In June 2012, the late Kofi Annan, who at the time served as a joint envoy of the UN secretary-general and the Arab League, summoned a group of major international players to sign off on basic principles for a peaceful solution in Syria. What came out of the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/infocus\/Syria\/FinalCommuniqueActionGroupforSyria.pdf\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Geneva I<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"> meeting could not have ended the war \u2013 the actual plan was idealistic claptrap. But if a UN-guided framework for international talks had been brought forward with appropriate caution and a stringent focus on more achievable goals \u2013 like\u00a0trying to limit civilian suffering, preventing regional spillover, and hashing out mutually acceptable red lines \u2013 Annan\u2019s gambit might have succeeded in routinizing conflict management habits more effective than the angry shouting matches that were to follow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">A display of early diplomatic pragmatism and collaboration on second-order issues might have spared Syrians some of the heartbreak that followed. Or maybe the opportunity would have been squandered by clashing agendas and over-ambitious diplomats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">We will never know, because Russian-US collaboration instantly broke down in a clutter of irreconcilable statements, partly, it seems, due to the strains on the White House in election season. Not until 2015 were Syria\u2019s main foreign actors brought into the same room again, in very different circumstances: then, as a result of the reality-check provided by a Russian military intervention.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Unlike the United States, Russia <i>did<\/i> have a stand-alone partner that it could work with on the ground toward an end state that would be ugly but acceptable to Moscow. That <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshualandis.com\/blog\/25520-2\/\"><span style=\"color: black;\">combination<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"> allowed for the deployment of untrammeled military power in Assad\u2019s favor, which made all the difference.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">The Russian intervention in September 2015 became one of the Syrian war\u2019s decisive turning points. Ever since President Vladimir Putin\u2019s air force went to work against the rebellion, it has slowly and brutally transformed the battlefield. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">The intervention also wrought changes on the regional and international stage. Being browbeaten by Russia was what finally forced Turkey to shift its position, in mid-2016, to seek some form of understanding with Assad\u2019s allies. That, too, was a game changer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">History writes itself in a terrible hand, which can take time to decipher. But it seems clear that Syria is now in a new and different phase of the war, which looks to be <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/articles\/25498\/the-shape-of-syria-to-come\"><span style=\"color: black;\">an endgame of sorts<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">. Barring a regional war or a dramatic upset inside the Syrian, Russian, or Iranian regimes, all of which are structurally unsound in their own ways, the battle for Damascus is over: Assad has won.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"BrdtextA\"><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">What is left is a mostly Russian-piloted contest over Syria\u2019s economic future and independence, including the refugee crisis and the fate of three remaining border enclaves: the US-controlled areas in <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tcf.org\/content\/report\/blame-game-syrians-stranded-desert\/\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Tanf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"> and the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tcf.org\/content\/report\/factory-glimpse-syrias-war-economy\/\"><span style=\"color: black;\">northeast<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">, and the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"Hyperlink0\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/analysis\/2018\/09\/03\/idlib-briefing-humanitarian-catastrophe-feared-syria-war-reaches-final-rebel\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Turkish-run northwest<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Ingen\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">. Will these areas revert to central government control, or stay propped up by external patronage in a frozen conflict? Again, foreigners will call the shots.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Other roundtable submissions can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salonsyria.com\/syria-turning-points-an-ongoing-roundtable\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at seven years of Syrian civil war, it is striking how many pivotal moments have been the result of foreign intervention and external meddling.\u00a0 That is not to say events since 2011 have played out according to a foreign script. 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