Mid-East Mess: Signs of Diplomatic Shift.

While we have been focused on the triumphs of Team GB in Rio, things have been happening in this cauldron of death and confusion, which was supposed to be a beacon of democracy to light the world, according to the pea brains who inaugurated the biggest military and foreign policy failure in centuries. There is no need to rehearse the course which led us here, nor to rant once more at the fools, stooges, wishful thinkers and nut cases who led it. But here we are with no clear plan anywhere which will exit us and free the suffering people from the dreadful violence, repression, starvation and death which is their daily and in many cases only diet.

Yet there are critical shifts beginning in the sterile posturing which has blocked any kind of progress. Turkey is moving closer to Russia and Iran, Washington and Moscow are in continuous dialogue and there are increasing signs that a new but fragile unity driven by realism among these five key players may chart both a decisive assault on the military capacity of IS and some kind of deal to end the conflict in Syria.

For the sake of everyone we can only hope so. Enough is more than enough.

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