USA and Germany withdraw missile batteries from the Turkish border with Syria

The decision by the US and Germany, to withdraw the missile batteries that are protecting the Turkish border from the Syrian, opens new scenarios in the regional conflict and agrees to new reflections and considerations about possible diplomatic developments. The decision to protect the country from attack turkish the Assad regime had been taken within the framework of the Atlantic Alliance and also involves the Spanish forces, the extension of the commitment which Madrid has not yet expressed. The American mission will end in October, while the German one in early 2016. The Atlantic Alliance has no plans to replace quotas with other departing military, leaving the task to Turkey, if any, to organize his defense. The basis of the decision, there are several reasons, but the main one is assessing the potential danger of the opponent in the region, which is no longer represented by the dictatorship in Damascus, but the militias of the Islamic state. It is an assessment that comes primarily from Washington and that is based on military considerations and the need to eliminate more quickly the presence of the caliphate rather than that of Assad. It must be specified that unofficial channels of American diplomacy, probably flanked by that of Iran, have obtained extensive assurances from Assad in Damascus on the desire to abstain from striking the countries belonging to NATO. As evidence of these contacts is just the fact that the United States will abandon the first Turkish border, that could not happen without assurances, albeit unofficial Damascus. This fact takes on an extremely political, because it confirms that Assad is still able to play an important role in the Syrian issue, especially after the success of the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue, which not only allow the Iranian diplomacy to get out of its isolation, has favored meetings and collaboration on issues that go far beyond the single issue of atomic energy in Tehran. Also the abandonment of the Turkish border, indicating that the White House is promoting solutions involving Iran in a growing struggle in the Islamic state, even in disagreement with historical allies, as, indeed, Turkey and Saudi Arabia . Obama chose a coherent approach to the direction taken in international politics, who wants to give priority to the diplomatic contacts and greater involvement of regional powers, trying to be involved as little as possible on the field. This does not mean that the world crises are not dealt with directly, but has changed the way to try to influence them, avoiding the direct intervention and favoring, instead, greater international participation. However, the path chosen by the US is a constant balancing act between countries that are adversaries, even long-term; so the decision to remove the missile sites from the Turkish border was not taken well by Ankara, which sees up consideration of Assad and his chances to retain at least part of Syrian territory. In assessments of the withdrawal of the missile batteries must be also considered the attitude of Ankara against the Kurds, it is unwelcome to the Americans that the Germans. For the first is a problem of alliances and military strategy, since the Kurds have secured a permanent presence on the ground, while in Berlin the issue is domestic, with the opposition which does not like turkish military action against the Kurds, that must be added to the bad relations going on between the two states. Finally, this event is a sign of the development of cooperation between Washington and Tehran on Syrian issue, a partnership that the White House was forced to take to the lack of cooperation of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who initially favored militias that later would form the Islamic state, only for special interests, losing sight of the public interest which was to represent the views of countries strongly allies.