For a long time, it was in Geneva and New York, under the aegis of the United Nations, or in Western capitals that major international crises were discussed. Today, it is in Moscow, Astana or Sochi that the future of Syria and the upheavals of the Middle East are struggling. At the helm, it is no longer Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, the European institutions, or even Donald Trump. But Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sometimes helped by Iranian leaders. The Turkish and Russian presidents met again on Thursday in Moscow after having declined the Franco-German proposal for a meeting of four. This was already the case at the time of Aleppo. But since then things have grown. The Idlib crisis is indicative of Western helplessness in Syria.
By gradually withdrawing from the region, Barack Obama and then Donald Trump made the bed of the Russian and Turkish powers, to which they de facto delegated the outsourcing of the Syrian dossier.
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