Sputnik International The so-called transition period in Syria is a pretext for Western countries that need time to establish working relations with the country’s new authorities, ex-UK Ambassador to Syria and Middle East expert Peter Ford has told Sputnik.
“All talk of ‘transition’ is a smoke screen to create a window of one or two years in which the Western powers can develop an open master-client relationship with people who yesterday were Al-Qaeda and ISIS [both banned in Russia as terrorist]. For Western powers, the optics of doing business with gangs and warlords designated as terrorist groups present a problem. This can be got round, however, by pretending to have a ‘transition,'” Ford said.
The militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are trying to establish in Damascus an authority similar to the “salvation government” it had created in Idlib to cover its rule, he added.
“This is akin to the administration Hamas installed in Gaza, although Hamas, of course, were elected,” the ex-diplomat said.
The true transition process would require the participation of many groups, Ford continued.
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