{"id":3483,"date":"2025-02-02T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-seeking-to-salvage-military-bases-goes-hat-in-hand-to-syria\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:33:50","slug":"russia-seeking-to-salvage-military-bases-goes-hat-in-hand-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-seeking-to-salvage-military-bases-goes-hat-in-hand-to-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Seeking to Salvage Military Bases, Goes Hat in Hand to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The time had come to bend the knee \u2014 or at least bend to reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A delegation of Russian diplomats arrived last Tuesday in a caravan of white SUVs for a summit in Damascus and an unenviable assignment: lay the groundwork for Russia to keep its military bases in Syria, less than two months after rebels had toppled Moscow\u2019s preferred strongman, Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To do so, the delegation would need to win over a people the Russian military had bombed ruthlessly, helping Mr. al-Assad, for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Awaiting them was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/syria-president-ahmed-al-shara.html\" title=\"\">Ahmed al-Shara<\/a>, who had survived a decade of Russian airstrikes to emerge as Syria\u2019s new interim leader. He stood in the presidential palace and faced the Kremlin\u2019s envoys for a long-awaited reckoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The talks that ensued, the first between Moscow and Damascus since the end of the nearly 14-year war, ended unresolved. But they marked the beginning of potentially drawn-out negotiations about what role, if any, Russia will play in postwar Syria, having lost <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/08\/world\/europe\/russia-syria-assad-putin.html\" title=\"\">its bid<\/a> to keep Mr. al-Assad in power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meeting demonstrated the kind of geopolitical horse-trading that has begun in the aftermath of Syria\u2019s civil war \u2014 with the potential to remake the Middle East. World powers are jockeying for influence, as Syria\u2019s fledgling leadership tries to win legitimacy, security and aid through disciplined and stony-eyed realpolitik.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think the general air in Damascus is, \u2018We Syrians don\u2019t need a fight with anyone at this point, including our former enemies,\u2019\u201d said Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. \u201cSo de-escalation and pragmatism are the names of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, it was the Russians who were asked to make concessions. Mr. al-Shara emphasized that any new relations with Moscow \u201cmust address past mistakes,\u201d and requested compensation for the destruction Russia caused, his government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also demanded that Moscow hand over <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/08\/world\/syria-war-damascus\" title=\"\">Mr. al-Assad<\/a> and his top associates to face justice, according to two officials in the caretaker government with knowledge of the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, a former spy who prizes loyalty, almost certainly would not agree. Asked the day after the meeting whether Mr. al-Shara requested Mr. al-Assad\u2019s extradition, Mr. Putin\u2019s spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Shara otherwise appeared surprisingly amenable to cooperating with Russia, as opposed to Iran, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/08\/world\/middleeast\/iran-general-syria-defeat.html\" title=\"\">Mr. al-Assad\u2019s other key ally<\/a>, which the new authorities in Damascus have said is no longer welcome in Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview with the BBC in late December, Mr. al-Shara cited Syria\u2019s \u201clongstanding strategic relations\u201d with Moscow and said he was \u201cnot in a hurry to get Russia out of Syria, as some people imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noted, in a separate interview with Saudi state television, that Russia has supplied the Syrian military\u2019s arms for decades and provides experts who run Syria\u2019s power plants. The implication: Damascus may need Russia in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are absolutely desperate for legitimacy and international support,\u201d Mr. Lister said of Syria\u2019s new leaders. \u201cCausing any big international rupture would be the worst thing they could consider doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beyond possible deliveries of oil and grain from Russia, what Mr. al-Shara needs is for Moscow not to play spoiler in his effort to reconstruct Syria and build a government, said Hanna Notte, an analyst at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a country that is now, politically speaking, being built from the ashes,\u201d she said. She pointed out that the Russians are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and could impede Mr. al-Shara in many ways, should they decide not to be \u201cpolitically benevolent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Shara himself has noted Russia is considered the world\u2019s second-most powerful military, and said his newly formed government was not in a position to oppose major powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the meeting, where Russia was represented by its top Middle East envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, neither side appeared to be in a rush to make any big decisions. What the rest of the world, and in particular the United States, European Union, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, demand from Syria\u2019s new leaders could also influence Russia\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, a flurry of diplomats from those and other countries have arrived in Damascus to meet Mr. al-Shara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia wants to keep its naval base on the Mediterranean at Tartus, which dates to the Soviet era. It also seeks to maintain the Hmeimim Air Base outside Latakia,<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>which Moscow has used as a supply and stopover hub for expeditionary operations in Africa. So far, the new Syrian authorities have not said no, and Russia has stayed put, despite moving materiel off the bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Syria\u2019s pragmatic rhetoric has been reciprocated in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After years of defending the Assad regime on the battlefield and at the United Nations, Russian leaders have spun the loss of their longtime ally as a win and extended an olive branch to the new authorities, whom Moscow had long denounced as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI would call it improvised opportunism,\u201d Ms. Notte said. \u201cIt is a pretty remarkable pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin, speaking in December at his annual news conference, said Russia had won, rather than lost, in Syria, because Moscow had prevented the country from becoming a terrorist enclave. He said he had yet to even see Mr. al-Assad, though he committed to meeting him at some point. It is unclear if they have met since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian leader offered the use of Russia\u2019s bases to deliver humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, who only weeks before had been weathering Russian airstrikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He would keep Russia\u2019s presence there, he said, only if Moscow\u2019s interests coincided with those of the political forces that had taken control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the United Nations, the Russian ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, said in January that those forces were \u201cbehaving quite competently.\u201d The friendship between Russia and Syria, he emphasized, is \u201cnot connected to any regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The navy suit and tie Mr. al-Shara wore to the meeting with the Russian envoys belied his past as a Qaeda fighter turned Islamist rebel leader. So did his nonconfrontational rhetoric in the run-up to the talks, and his professed willingness to make nice with former foes, including the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Shara welcomed a top State Department delegation in December, despite having once spent time in Iraq imprisoned by U.S. forces and having been designated a terrorist by the U.S. government with a $10 million bounty. (Washington withdrew the bounty after the talks.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Shara needs sanctions relief from the United States, as well as Washington\u2019s support on the Security Council, for Syria to begin an economic recovery and access international aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States also still has troops on the ground, backing Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria that Mr. al-Shara doesn\u2019t control. He has stated his desire to keep the country whole, which would include that territory, where Washington backed local forces to destroy the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European officials have visited Damascus and offered a path to sanctions relief, but have made clear that they would disapprove of the retention of a Russian military presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How the Trump administration will approach the question is unclear. In December, as the Assad regime fell, Mr. Trump said on social media that the war in Syria was \u201cnot our fight\u201d and that the United States should have nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The question of Mr. al-Assad\u2019s fate adds to the delicate nature of the negotiations between Moscow and Damascus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. al-Shara is still trying to establish legitimacy among the Syrian people and disparate Syrian groups, and striking a deal with Russia while it is harboring the strongman who killed so many Syrians could undercut his standing. That is one reason delaying any commitment to Moscow could make sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lister described the request for Mr. al-Assad as a maximalist opening demand, characteristic of early-stage negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt hits the mark in terms of laying down the principle: \u2018We may be willing to be pragmatic today, but we have not forgotten history,\u2019\u201d Mr. Lister said. \u201cRussia\u2019s complicity in all manner of war crimes in Syria is not something Syrians will be forgetting anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Inside Syria, Mr. al-Shara is still pursuing remnants of the Assad regime\u2019s force to consolidate control. Moscow could make that task more difficult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though the loss of the bases in Syria would dent Russia\u2019s power in the region, Moscow potentially has other options. The Kremlin\u2019s backing of the military ruler of eastern Libya could offer an alternative location for a Russian naval base on the Mediterranean. Already, Russia has been using Libyan air bases for flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The status of the Russian bases in Syria may not be resolved soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that both sides benefit from delaying the negotiations on the fate of the bases,\u201d said Anton Mardasov, a Russian military affairs expert focusing on Syria. \u201cMoscow can thus preserve its image, since it has already managed to hold out as long as possible and not leave immediately after the fall of the Assad regime, and Damascus can for now negotiate the lifting of sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/02\/world\/europe\/russia-syria-bases.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time had come to bend the knee \u2014 or at least bend to reality. 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