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MOSCOW — If Russia once maintained at least a semblance of distance from President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, it rushed to his defense after the American missile strike ordered by President Trump on Thursday. The attack cemented Moscow more closely than ever to the notorious Syrian autocrat.
Even as the United States condemned Mr. Assad for gassing his own citizens and held Russia partly responsible, given its 2013 promise to rid Syria of chemical weapons, the Kremlin kept denying that Syria had any such capability.
By championing Mr. Assad and condemning American "aggression," President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia seemed to be burying the idea that he could somehow cooperate with the Trump administration to end the conflict on his terms.
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." Attributed to Abraham Maslow.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 10 2017, @01:47PM (8 children)
You betcha. Without them, Russia's navy would need to cross through the Bosporus straight, controlled by NATO.
Maybe it will... at least as long as this will amuse China. You reckon it's a coincidence this happened while president Xi was visiting Trump?
I mean, quite a reversal of the orange one's in the love relation vis-a-vis Russia and China - the later is no longer evil, eh? Have you heard anything new about China's artificial islands lately? No? Mmmm... it may be a coincidence... or not, time will tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:17PM (2 children)
Putin must want that base on the Mediterranean pretty bad.
You betcha. Without them, Russia's navy would need to cross through the Bosporus straight, controlled by NATO.
Yeah... controlled by NATO...by member country Turkey... with its glorious leader Erdogan... who is in the same league as Putin and Assad.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 10 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)
Who also doesn't play as Putin's interest dictate... it downs russian planes now and then [bbc.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:11PM
That was then, when Erdogan still thought the US would be useful to him.
Times have changed and he's gone full-putin since.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday April 10 2017, @05:29PM (2 children)
You betcha. Without them, Russia's navy would need to cross through the Bosporus straight, controlled by NATO.
Or, it's the usual suspect: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/russia-iran-warn-trump-they-will-respond-force-if-syria-red-lines-crossed-again [zerohedge.com]
Btw, Trump's new found interest in Israel-Palestine peace? You could skip Syria and cut through Jordan and Israel directly to the sea if you didn't have to worry about Palestinians blowing up the proposed lines.
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:12PM (1 child)
Couldn't you at least come up with a source better than zerohedge? That site is just infowars for hipsters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:19AM
Those ideas are older than Zerohedge.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 10 2017, @07:17PM (1 child)
Yes, it could just be a coincidence.
China's trademark review board announced in September it had invalidated a rival claim for the Trump trademark, clearing the way for Trump to move in. In November, soon after the election, it awarded the trademark to the Trump Organization.
-- http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/news/companies/trump-china-trademark/index.html [cnn.com]
Matthew Dresden, a lawyer with Harris Bricken in Seattle who specializes in Chinese intellectual property law, said it was atypical that all the trademarks were “approved at once.”
-- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/china-trademark-donald-trump.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by arulatas on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:01PM
Make America Great In China (MAGIC)
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