Written by Nasser Kandil,

It may be difficult to understand the fact that an army as the second army in the NATO has been defeated quickly under conditions for which all political and military capabilities were mobilized and all internal and external mobilization were prepared. During the days that followed the entry of the Syrian army to the western and northern countryside of Aleppo in the middle of the last February, the military campaign which the Turkish President RecepErdogan announced its date in the end of February became ready, it has one goal; to return the Syrian army to beyond the Turkish control points, it means to impose the retreat by force from the cities of Saraqib and Maarat Al Numan as a condition to stop that campaign.

Within fifteen days, Erdogan mobilized all the monsters of Al Nusra front, Turkestan, Chechnya, and Uighurs, included them into the elite commandos of his army, he entered hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of soldiers to the battlefield, he prepared his modern fifth-generation drones, he set his artillery and renewed its coordinates, furthermore, he employed the murder of his dead by the Syrian bombing in the area of Jisr Al Shogour to mobilize the national spirit of the army in order to create internal mobilization that surrounds every voice opposing the war. He addressed the NATO asking for support, and he raised his political positions against Russia’s call for neutrality and the avoidance of collision. He demanded from his intelligence services to make use of the issue of the refugees to exert pressure on Europe. But when the military operation in Saraqib started, his drones and artilleries succeeded in targeting tens of sites of the Syrian army and the resistance forces including health facilities, causing tens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded, where his unites committed brutal massacres against the fighters who fell into captivity and mutilated those who fell martyrs and were exposed to the worst forms of abuse.

During one night, the reverse operation to recover Saraqib started, it began from the midnight until dawn, within only four hours the Ottoman army and many terrorists of different nationalities have been defeated. The fire coverage failed in securing the retreat, so this led to the random withdrawal and caused many losses. In the morning the units of the Syrian army along with the resistance forces were positioning in all areas of Saraqib and without rest they continued their attack towards Nairab  to re-open the national road amid a continuous defeat of the Ottoman army, while on the fronts of the national road between Aleppo and Latakia, the Syrian army was reaping more victories and re-having control over what it lost during the Ottoman attack.

What happened is neither normal nor simple nor tactical, it is the victory of the Syrian national state, and the resistance project over a dual project, whose its first pole is American that wants to leave chaos after its withdrawal, by opening the door for endless fight between what he believes the Iranian and Turkish imperial projects to change the Sykes-Picot maps, and replaces them with sharing influence of the glories of the two empires and implements Bernard Lewis’s alternative maps based on doctrinal dualism, while  its second pole is Turkish Ottoman that bets on the areas of the American-Russian conflict to put its hand on, and to expand its geographical scope to fulfill a historical dream missed its opportunity a century ago during the fall of the Ottoman Empire and its inability to strip more geography from Syria and Iraq.

The owners of the American and Turkish projects missed the fact that Iran’s superiority in the region is based on two differences. First, it does not have a colonial project to expand the Iranian influence, but rather a project for the resistance axis that includes allies who believe in the priority of confronting the Zionist project in the region, which Turkey is still refusing to be part of it. Second, Iran works for enhancing the resistance axis that supports the project of the national state in the countries that witness wars as Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. But because Syria has powerful present project of the national state that has the support of its people and the capable army, a new kind of war is revolving today entitled by the Russian and Iranian allies “the support of the Syrian national state”. Just for that the fighters in the resistance axis are superior to those whom Turkey and America thought that they could achieve victory due to their moral and the honesty of their cause.

The victory of Saraqib proved to the Turks that there is no issue that deserves the death in Syria, and those who fight with the Turkish army know that they are just agents without any cause. While the Syrian army fights to defend its homeland, land, and national state, and the resistance fighters are elevated to martyrdom in defense of an axis they know that it is the guarantee of a deterrent balance against Israel and a pillar of support of the resistance in Palestine, and where Syria is the main engagement arena with the occupation entity and a linkage point, just for that the confrontation is taking place against the Ottoman army to defend this arena and to frustrate all the Israeli bets.

After the defeat, the settlement has become more difficult to Erdogan, and the achievement of new victory has become impossible with the collapses of the structure of the Ottoman army comparing with the progress of the Syrian army and its allies despite the ferocity of fire. But it is possible to talk about a settlement if Erdogan accepts to recognize the Syrian national state under which other titles come, and which is awaiting him in Moscow before the defeat and after it.

Translated by LinaShehadeh,

2020-03-12 | عدد القراءات 3242