{"id":357134,"date":"2018-04-17T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macrons-syria-game-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-04-17T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:17:12","slug":"macrons-syria-game-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macrons-syria-game-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s Syria Game | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There is a certain bullishness in French circles these days, even if there was an initial attempt, with the Macron government, to calm matters down.\u00a0 The need to assert Gallic might in the face of brutality has again surfaced; and has a familiar ring to it.\u00a0 With Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad getting more comfortable with military progress, officials in the United States, France and Britain are chewing finger nails and churning out policy papers of concern.<\/p>\n<p>For them, Syria remains a chess piece they never quite controlled, an entity filled with failed \u201cfree\u201d rebel fighters and packed with such agents of spoliation as murderous jihadi groups. But one group\u2019s murderous antics are another\u2019s decent balancing act in terms of strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Even before US President Donald Trump decided to huff and issue the order that lead to the launch of 105 missiles from the triumvirate, France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron was being egged on to do something.\u00a0 He was also egging himself on to target the Assad regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons, despite having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/politique\/syrie-emmanuel-macron-ne-voit-pas-de-successeur-legitime-a-bachar-al-assad-22-06-2017-7076601.php\">previously suggested<\/a> that there was no \u201clegitimate successor\u201d to the Syrian President.<\/p>\n<p>This impulse to punish, to instigate the use of force for the specific purpose of correcting a supposed violation of international norms was already being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/international\/2017\/06\/21\/01003-20170621ARTFIG00333-emmanuel-macron-l-europe-n-est-pas-un-supermarche.php\">flagged last summer<\/a>. \u201cWhen you set out red lines, if you are unable to force them, then you decide to be weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian imbroglio has not been an easy one to define for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/macrons-syria-game\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a certain bullishness in French circles these days, even if there was an initial attempt, with the Macron government, to calm matters down.\u00a0 The need to assert Gallic might in the face of brutality has again surfaced; and has a familiar ring to it.\u00a0 With Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad getting more comfortable with military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}