Kerry on live TV just publicly surrendered the US position on Syria to Russia

There are certain key phrases that were used that are the biggest indication that this wide-gulf exists, setting aside an objective assessment of the situation which also demands such a view.  Any objective appraisal indicates the US has a vulnerable position.

Allowing one’s enemy a safe routing passage is an age-old tactic, and a basic military maneuver which ensures the opponent does not have a necessary reason to fight to the bitter end. It has allowed the US to make a hasty if somewhat tactical withdrawal without using the overt language of surrender.

The US political scum reacted true to form to Russia’s attack on ISIL. Reader Marcus Nestor sums it up well: “After the news hit the western media sewer today, that Russian forces had begun exterminating the ISIS terrorists, John McCain (who else) was up and addressing the senate, to whine that “its all over”.. I didn’t know whether to laugh or puke. Its not as if many of us haven’t known for years now, that McCain is THE sugar daddy of E. European Nazis and Takfiri cannibals the world over, but to listen to him mourning the righteous destruction of some of these pests is enough to boil the blood. Of course, he blames Obama mainly. Blames him for not starting WW3 by attacking the Russians, so as to defend the murdering mercenary scum….This is the face of the American/European capitalist ruling class with all of their pretense ripped away…”

Also, the language of collaboration has a legal meaning. While we live in a world where the US has tried to deconstruct the post-war order of law and precedent, and has abrogated any number of agreements and conventions, it is important to understand that this is not Russia’s aim.
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At the very core of the US’s lawlessness is this:  The post-war order created an international system of law, that while recognizing the supremacy of the victors of the war as evidenced in the structure of the UN Security Council, was also quite truly based in principles of equality between nations and the right to self determination.
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In the several decades that followed the end of WWII the world saw a global anti-colonial and anti-imperialist uprising, primarily in the third world, which – despite some frustrations at the hands of US imperialism – was able to make good on the promises and values enshrined in the UN Charter.  While the US continued to violate human rights and international law in some major instances; in South-east Asia and Central America in particular – its primary interaction with the world at large was not reliant on lawlessness as an operating system.
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The US was agreeable to this post-war legal order, because through the international financial system of banks and parent structures like the IMF and WTO, they could dominate and control the third world countries economically even after they had won formal independence and sovereignty.
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As many of these countries grew up, and in some ways surpassed the US, the method of maintaining hegemony through economic domination, that could counter the legal equality of nation-states, became less and less useful proportionally.
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This explains in large part why the US has needed to defy international law and rely on brute military and information force— as its primary operating system in order to hold on to or regain its once dominant position.

The combined forces of China, Russia, and Iran on the Eurasian continent cannot likely be defeated. The US is keenly aware of this, but for reasons of its own internal political and military culture, required ‘evidence’ in the form of a massively successful air campaign on the part of the Russians. This is what the Russians delivered today, and that was probably the main reason for it.

So what was said today behind closed doors?
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What has not happened is any sort of joint plan by the US and Russia to strike at ISIS targets.  US media which hints at this are serving the primary role of running two kinds of interference: dissembling the reality that the US’s main creation cum ally is in fact ISIS, and to make it look like the US is still part of something which smells or sounds like ‘winning’.
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What may have indeed happened is the US focused on negotiating on behalf of Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to provide safe exit corridors for their foreign mercenary/extremist (hybrid) army groupments, and other important leaders, experts, and trainers.  There is a growing view among many analysts that among the real refugees coming into Europe, are important leaders and trainers from ISIS/FSA/Al Nusra who got a bit ahead of the curve and made their exits a few weeks sooner.
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What Kerry publicly said which is of critical importance – and what gives away the real nature of today’s talk  – that is US capitulation militarily –  was this:

“As Sergey said to you, we agreed on the imperative of a … as soon as possible, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, but as soon as possible – having a military to military deconflec .. deconfliction discussion, meeting, conference, whichever, whatever could be done as soon as possible, because we agree on the urgency of that deconfliction.”
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ISIL fighters in Iraq: the chickens come home to roost. Criminal US policy created them, even if it is other people who paid the highest price. Now they may at last be meeting a worthy adversary.

A military deconfliction discussion is neutrally postured face-saving language for something more adequately described as ‘disentanglement’ or perhaps even ‘terms of conditional surrender’.
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To stare right in the face of the obvious – we must call it as it is.  For two parties to have a deconfliction discussion – they must be in conflict.  This is what was at the core of this last minute talk.
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Another very significant thing that was not mentioned publicly was any talk of Syrian President Assad resigning from office.
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There is little doubt who – between Kerry and Lavrov – begged for this emergency meeting to take place. Outside of this more or less outright admission of defeat on the part of the US, is the similarity this has to the Debaltsevo situation and the Minsk Agreement.

This serves as a parallel to the Ukraine conflict where we saw the Debaltsevo cauldron, and the surrounding of what Motorola claimed publicly were NATO soldiers (whether in mercenary formations like Greystone/ Blackwater/ Xe/ Academi was not important), and the subsequent Minsk II Agreement built upon the defeat of the US proxy forces at Russian proxy force hands.

At the same time, Russia is well aware of this, and will rely more heavily on its primary strength in today’s emerging world: multi-polarity.

The lurid talk stimulated by Washington about Assad’s “guilt” in the Syrian mess, resonated throughout the Western media, as summed up in this cartoon.

What the US has threatened behind closed doors is that the it will double-down on its support for Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, or if you prefer ‘ISIS’. This dovetails nicely with what has emerged publicly from Kerry, which is that Russia will “be allowed” to fight ISIS on its own.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

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To really understand how these two fit together, we need only hear from US presidential candidates like Trump, whose job it has been to float this idea.  The idea is to ‘let’ Russia handle this fight, but with the real aim being here to increase support to ISIS with the goal of creating an Afghanistan like entanglement for Russia.

Evidence that Kerry was forced into an agreement not to his liking behind closed doors, were his final public statements.
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Kerry and aide Samantha Power confer at the UN. Russia’s bold moves in Syria have forced the US into an embarrassing corner.

Conclusively and to summarize these; that while the two men had just tentatively agreed on points of principle –  a Unified Syria, a Sovereign Syria, a Democratic Syria, a Secular Syria, and a Syria that is home to all ethnic and confessional groups – he would have to take this back to Obama and ‘his team’ for final approval.
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In a diplomatic faux pas and incorrectly speaking for Lavrov, Kerry also included that Lavrov would likely be taking this back to Putin for approval.  But it is not likely that Lavrov needs any further consultation given that what was agreed to were probably the full list of requirements from the Russian side. Victory does not typically require approval from above to accept – terms of surrender often do.

Of course, Lavrov will not object publicly or correct Kerry. Russia’ position of strength is not based on what Kerry thinks or does not think, says or does not say, but rather on its position in the international community.
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Russia’s strength lays with its partners in the region and on its actions founded firmly in principles of international law, and its military capacity – as resoundingly demonstrated today.
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Russian strategy has been based upon its understanding between the relationship of actual power and support ‘in principle’ from the international community.  As the US adventure has run out of gas, and run out of prospects for success – there has been an equal decrease in support from the international community.  Filling the support vacuum, is Russia.