Officials from Russia, Iran and Turkey were preening themselves earlier this month ahead of a trilateral meeting in Moscow of foreign and defence ministers, to discuss Syria after Aleppo. Were they inviting their US counterparts? No. A realpolitik parley is no place for Panglossian procrastinators who, furthermore, would spoil the triumph of Russia and Iran as they savour the destruction of rebel Aleppo and the salvage of a rump state for Bashar al-Assad, their Syrian client.
去年12月，俄羅斯、伊朗和土耳其官員們正在整理儀容，準備參加月底在莫斯科舉行的三方外長和防長會談，討論阿勒坡(Aleppo)收回之後的敘利亞局勢。他們邀請了美國同行嗎？沒有。一場現實政治的談判是不會給過分樂觀的拖延者留位置的，更何況他們還會破壞俄羅斯和伊朗勝利的喜悅——這兩個國家正津津有味地欣賞阿勒坡叛軍控制部分被摧毀，他們的敘利亞委託人巴沙爾•阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)的殘缺不全的國家得到挽救。
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