fahrenheit451:194

Sabre-rattling and venal bellicose posturing are back in the spotlight at the UN.

Already confused and flummoxed over the internal affairs of  DPRK ,the failing US and its imperialist satrapies are getting sucked ever deeper into the Syrian imbroglio with little prospect of achieving even an insignificant percentile of their original war aims in that country.

The USA's imperialist satrapies  are in even worse military and socio-economic shape than their Washington domiciled neocon lords and masters,who clearly are expecting big things from their hirelings and footpads.

Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported the following online 19 September :-
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (12:00 PM) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has stated that the United Kingdom has no intention of supporting the rebuilding of Syria as long as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
The former mayor of London made the remarks during a meeting with nations that supported anti-Assad forces during the Syrian Civil War, in the fringe of a United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Monday.
Johnson even stated that not only would the UK refuse any development aid for the reconstruction of Syria after the end of the war, but so would any of the other states that sided with Syrian rebels in past. This would include the United States, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, all of whom had representatives in the meeting that Johnson spoke to.

“We believe that the only way forward is to get a political process going and to make it clear to the Iranians, Russians and Assad regime that we, the like-minded group, will not support the reconstruction of Syria until there is such a political process and that means, as Resolution 2254 says, to a transition away from Assad,” Johnson said.

 

Interestingly, the UN Resolution 2254 that was voted into effect in 2015, makes no mention whatsoever of the removal of Assad from power, contrary to what Boris Johnson seemed to imply.

Johnson’s statement seems to contradict earlier statements by representatives from other former anti-Assad states. US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield earlier stated that “there has got to be a political process if there is to be any international participation in the reconstruction of Syria,” seemingly supporting the Russian mediated peace negotiations going on in Astana currently.

Boris Johnson.The world trembles at his every utterance.
If only.