Data from over 100 failed ceasefires shows most are followed by offensives
The ceasefire in Aleppo city worked pretty well -- once the RuAF siege on the east was lifted, the Salafist-Jihadist forces wasted no time indiscriminately shelling western Aleppo city and killing scores of civilians in a matter of days. At that point the RuAF and SAA had every moral right to respond in kind.<p>It was always expected that there would be violations and it would fail, the idea is that they fail in a manner that benefits The Good Guys(TM). In this case, the al-Qaeda-linked Salafist-Jihadists supported by the CIA and Turkey will now be relegated to the sands of time, fading into obscurity (and rightly so).<p>It is unfortunate that the SDF and related groups (ie: YPG&#x2F;J) never receive the same political and military recognition that their radical Islamist counterparts do.