Thread by @im_PULSE

@SenSanders Dear @SenSanders: thank you for raising this issue and emphasising its urgency. But the regime hasn't honoured any previous ceasefire, using them only as temporising measures, and the UN has little capacity to enforce them because of Russian obstruction.
@mattduss @RoKhanna

@SenSanders @mattduss @RoKhanna The current Russian/regime campaign is in breach of an existing ceasefire agreement. What is required is enforcement & deterrence. US reluctance to get directly involved is understandable. But Turkey is already in the fight, the US can equip it against Russian airpower & missiles

@SenSanders @mattduss @RoKhanna This is an opportunity: the US could regain leverage over Turkey, wean it away from Russia, and use it as an enforcer of a ceasefire. It begins with giving it the Patriot system it needs to neutralise the Russian military advantage.

@SenSanders @mattduss @RoKhanna Because talk of ceasefires without enforcement and negotiation without leverage is empty otherwise. The US badly needs leadership on this because at the moment it has no foreign policy.

@SenSanders @mattduss @RoKhanna And while it is noble and true to say that "there is no military solution", this doesn't help anyone as long as the main belligerents remain convinced that they can win militarily. It is to them that the point needs to be driven home: We won't let you win militarily!

@SenSanders @mattduss @RoKhanna From @DMiliband, ex UK foreign secretary:

"The catastrophe in Idlib is a symptom of the utter failure of diplomacy and abandonment by the international community of Syrian civilians. But it also foreshadows an even darker trend towards an Age of Impunity" newsweek.com/syria-idlib-av…