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March 12, 2020

The U.S. Has an Opportunity to Defend Its Interests in Syria against a Murderous Tyrant—but Will It Seize It?

Without a U.S. threat of force, Russia will emerge victorious, while winning over Turkey.

While a ceasefire agreement recently concluded between Turkey and Russia has temporarily reduced the fighting in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib, it is likely that Moscow and Damascus will eventually violate it as they did the 2018 ceasefire that created a “de-escalation zone” in Idlib. America, argues Frederic Hof, could use the situation to its strategic advantage, but instead has resorted to the same “pseudo-diplomacy” that has characterized its policy toward Syria since the civil war broke out there in 2011:

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