Bush double-crossed the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev then, and started the post-communist US war against Russian Federation, which is now soaring toward its climax, perhaps even to World War III, under U.S. President Barack Obama’s leadership.
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Since Paris, the refugee issue has reverberated on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, where fears about Muslims in the US have been voiced with a level of openness not seen since 9/11. He took a softer tone Sunday, saying he understands Americans’ concerns but urging them not to give into fear. The terrorist organization continues to strike targets outside of Syria.
“Doing more of the same and expecting a different result would be the definition of lunacy”, Mansoor said.
Russian Federation says its intervention is aimed at helping the Syrian government defeat the Islamic State group, but local activists and US officials say the strikes have also targeted Western-backed rebels fighting to overthrow Assad. The summit and Obama-Putin meeting had taken place against the backdrop of Vienna talks held last week where all parties had agreed to a two-year time-table for ending the war.
Speaking to Russian and Turkish media before his trip to the G20 summit in Turkey, Putin said Russian forces have a “clear task to provide air support for the Syrian army’s offensive against terrorists”. “That’s entirely the appropriate approach”.
The Philippines, a US treaty ally, had sought stronger language on the South China Sea but did not prevail on all that it wanted, a source close to the matter said.
Russia, however, recently suffered an act of terrorism by Islamic State that was even deadlier than the attacks in Paris. Democrats in large numbers have abandoned their president and his opposition to stiffer screening measures; forty-seven of them voted against Obama on Thursday. “This is the face of people around the world who still look to the United States as a beacon of hope”. They are depending on the Syrian troops on the ground. “There would be nothing left”. Russia’s military efforts in Syria could be said to have a three pronged agenda: to weaken North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, to prop-up Assad, and to prevent the Islamic State from migrating into Russian Federation via the Caucasus.
Obama has assembled an worldwide coalition to attempt to defeat ISIS. By contrast, the United States, Turkey and the Saudis have called for Assad’s removal from power. Syrian rebels have demanded that Assad step down as part of any agreement to end the fighting.
“Irresponsible US politics” in the Middle East helped lead to the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.
President Obama said Russia must make a strategic decision about Syria and the next several weeks will show whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will give up backing the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to join in a broad campaign against Islamic State. “We need to unite”.
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According to the ministry, Russian jets hit targets in Syria’s Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Raqqa, Homs, and Deir ez-Zor provinces. “I don’t think you’re going to find a resolution to Assad until you figure out how you’re going to deal with ISIS”. Should the Iranians’ military presence be carried on in Syria, the situation may just start to develop on Lebanese line if the Alawite and Christian forces are put together into an “independent military group”, the one that would be exactly like the Lebanese Hezbollah.
