U.S. suspends talks with Russia on Syria ceasefire

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19. Assad is running his daddy's playbook from Hama, but scaled up for Aleppo

Mass civilian deaths is their goal, because those civilians are viewed as likely to always be resistant to Assad.

The Russians have one goal--keeping their vassal Assad in power. They don't value human life of any kind. Look at what they did to Chechnya. So, they're all in on slow motion genocide in Aleppo.

As we've seen with Ukraine, and every other instance since Putin started rekindling the Cold War, the Russians have concluded that malignant aggression--to the exclusion of soft power via diplomacy-- is their only path to respect.

Syria the nation state is already dead. Only a matter of whether anyone will be left alive there to populate the fractured territories.