US Military to 'Help Brokering' Peace at Damascus Airbase
Reuters, via Al-Monitor, breathlessly reports on the US preparing a new military presence at a Damascus airbase, allegedly to 'help enable a security pact' between Syria and Israel. This, they claim, is a 'sign of Syria's strategic realignment with the US' following Assad's 'fall' – a rather creative reimagining of geopolitical reality given Assad remains very much in power. This isn't
'realignment,' it's another US forward operating base, meticulously framed as benign peacekeeping, much like the 'temporary' stays that morph into decades-long occupations. One wonders how many times the US needs to 'broker' peace before peace actually becomes profitable. The media narrative conveniently skips over the decades of US and Israeli interventions that destabilized the region, creating
the very 'security vacuums' they now claim to fill. Think of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the decades-long occupation of Afghanistan, or the ongoing US military support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. This move is less about a 'pact' and more about strategic positioning against rivals like Iran, all under the guise of an international 'security' facade. It appears the US definition of 'peace' always
involves more American boots on someone else's ground.