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U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad

posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @11:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-peas-in-a-pod dept.

Runaway1956 writes:

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/world/europe/us-attack-on-syria-cements-kremlins-embrace-of-assad.html?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:40PM (#491819)

    Interesting, that you seem to be the only poster who questions whether Assad gassed that town.

    Are you joking?
    In the two other stories about this on soylent the people pushing that conspiracy theory got +5 mods.

    Here's the thing - Assad has been using chemical weapons on a regular basis for years now. [archive.org] One more time is not out of the ordinary.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:00PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:00PM (#491837)

    assad has been *accused* of using chemical weapons multiple times, by a bunch of lying whores.