What Really Are The Objectives Of The US-NATO Coalition In Syria?

by Eze Eluchie

The successes being recorded by Russia over ISIS, over a relatively short period, puts a solid question mark over the intentions and activities of the US-NATO coalition in the war against ISIS.

With Russian Air Force jet strikes taking down ISIS Command and Communication Centers, obliterating ISIS weapon storage centers and generally diminishing the ability of ISIS and other terror groups operating in Syria, the question of what targets have attracted U.S-NATO coalition forces in Syria becomes a subject of interest to anyone interested in understanding and or unraveling the seemingly unending Syrian debacle.

ISIS has clearly been pummeled into continuously defensive maneuvers in the past two weeks, compared to when they could still boldly seek to seize and retain territories in the face of clearly ineffective U.S-NATO coalition aerial ‘bombardments’ which seemed to focus on wasting multi-million dollar missiles to target insignificant contingent of ISIS terrorists on SUV’s.

Some of the actions of members of the U.S-NATO Coalition, particularly Turkey has been indicative of, if not tacit support for ISIS, at the very least compromised position in efforts at confronting ISIS. Turkey's decision to attack Kurdish Peshmerga forces when they were on course to routing ISIS troops gives further credence to the believe that perhaps there might have been ulterior aims in previous efforts against ISIS.

The US-NATO Coalition in Syria seems to have different objectives than the destruction of ISIS.

It is hoped that the U.S-NATO Coalition will rethink there so far ineffective approach to confronting ISIS and consider the more direct, practical and effective approach been deployed by Russia in addressing the ISIS carnage. The international community is clearly in support of efforts by Russia to destroy ISIS.

It is apparent that a new definition of the term ‘international community’ may be in the offing!



Picture: A Russian Air Force Su-34 Bomber in operation over Syrian airspeace at  Aleppo