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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: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:46PM (2 children)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:46PM (#492248) Journal

    Nah, Trump doesn't have the capability for that level of planning. Putin would probably have to talk to the the generals directly to put together a plan like that, which seems unlikely.

    The truth is just that Trump doesn't have a plan. Trump mostly just repeats whatever the last person he spoke to said. So if he talks to Putin, he'll spend all day talking about how great Russia is. If he talks to Xi, suddenly he loves China. If we could manage to get him on the phone with Assad he'd probably end up talking about the need to make peace with our friends in Syria! Someone else mentioned above that he DID just meet with China and surely they're happy about anything we can do to block Russia...so that alone could explain this sudden need to attack Russia (or at least Russia's interests.)

    http://www.vox.com/2016/8/29/12691276/trump-believe-flop-flop [vox.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:55PM (#492253)

    I do believe the flip-flop.
    I was making fun of the OP's conspiracy fantasy by inventing an equally well-supported conspiracy fantasy.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @12:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @12:29AM (#492546)

      OP's conspiracy fantasy

      Whoosh!