Syrian ceasefire largely holding, thank God

The temporary nationwide ceasefire in Syria has largely held for the third day - a surprising development to many observers.

Of course, there are the usual accusations of breaches by both sides, but it's pretty obvious that this stalemate disproportionately benefits the regime and the Russia-led Axis of Fatima's resolute and sincere effort to bring about a satisfactory and dignified end to the holocaust for all Syrians...so much so that active fighting elite Iranian troops are reportedly withdrawing from the country.

The increasingly desperate foreign-backed opposition is now seizing at any opportunity to make Russia and Assad look like the aggressors who have no intent to work for peace. Thus far, they aren't making much headway with an increasingly sobered international community (even the West).

Russia's position looks very good...those same idiotic, unrepentant voices clamoring for the US to undermine Moscow, like here and here, increasingly come off as the worst kind of warmongers - the suicidal kind.

Though the government has recaptured its supply line to Aleppo from ISIS for the second time since the Russian intervention, there's every reason to expect more nuisance attacks from both ISIS and Al Nusra that drain limited resources. The silver lining is that as the "moderate" opposition is increasingly marginalized on the battlefield and drawn into what can only be an Assad-led anti-terrorist coalition, worldwide attention will refocus on the long-delayed showdown between the regime and the actual terrorists, and increasingly jettison the fiction that they're somehow allies just because they've been partners of convenience when they both perceived the rebels to be the greater threat.

It may take a while, but the current nationwide ceasefire could be planting the seeds for localized truces such as those that have developed in the past half-year in regime-dominated areas of south-to-center-west Syria to spread up to northern sectors, i.e. in the embattled Aleppo province, as well. Such a drawing down of general hostilities will be seized by extremists, as in last week's horrendous suicide bombings in Homs and Damascus, to sow chaos and confusion, but this may well unify government and insurgent elements against a common enemy. After five years, just about everyone is tired of bloodshed and violence...accepting Assad's continued rule, especially in light of his potential flexibility during a political transition, will increasingly be seen as a small price to pay for longer stretches of tranquility and security; those who still don't want it are vengeful madmen who deserve to be exterminated.

Meanwhile, in another potential boost for the Axis of Fatima, Donald Trump looks set to win big on "Super Tuesday", much to the chagrin of the warmongering, democracy-spreading Republican establishment. At the moment, the latest controversy is his reluctance to condemn former KKK leader David Duke. But this is another attack that can backfire badly for the establishment: Mr. Duke has opposed an interventionist, nation-building foreign policy for years, railing at the entitlement Washington feels to be the world's cop; if nothing else, this dovish foreign policy is something that Mr. Trump can seize on to further sharpen the intensifying revolt against the Beltway's bankrupt global social engineering policies.