It is unclear whether Russian pilots have also been told to keep a 20 nautical mile buffer zone from American and coalition aircraft. Russian Federation has been forced to prop up a teetering Assad regime, he maintains, Russia’s only ally in the region. Now it’s also going on in Syria. While the number of its mercenary forces, the so-called “moderate” opposition, is dwindling to literally a handful, the ranks and reach of the Frankenstein (the ISIS) that the US and its partners have created are expanding.
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The head of media and communications at the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Rabiah Ahmed, said the consortium wants the Russian government “to cease military strikes that have killed civilians and has destroyed infrastructure” in Syria. Do you suppose 7000 airstrikes may be contributing to the refugee crisis?
To its credit, the House did stand up for taxpayers and unanimously pass my amendment to the 2016 defense authorization bill directing the Pentagon to stop supplying and training any military faction in Iraq or Syria that has been found to misuse US arms and resources.
“What can you say about the overall assessment of Obama’s and Putin’s speeches in New York by other leaders?” Let us take a brief look at those earlier plans of regime change. Many are annoyed by what the Americans do in the world.
The rebels have suffered “great losses”, which led to a “collapse in their morale”, as thousands of them fled toward Turkey and Jordan and part of them fled toward Europe, the TV said.
They have nothing to do with Kremlin policy. These pro-Soviet modernizing nationalist leaders also often poked fun at the unreformed, incorrigible kingdoms and sheikhdoms such as Saudi Arabia for being historically obsolete and politically dependent on the imperial Powers of the West. ISIS is also trying to overthrow the government.
Baghdad may request Russian help in days or weeks, he said – challenging Washington’s regional imperial project more than already if Moscow expands its war on terror cross-border. We talk about his leadership, whether it’s strong or whether the U.S.is projecting strength or weakness in the Middle East. This morning’s Democrat-Gazette said the USA and its allies have launched 7000 airstrikes in Syria.
It follows from this brief historical overview that Powerful beneficiaries of militarism need war and military adventures overseas in order to win the financial war at home, that is, the war over budgetary allocation of tax dollars, or the national/Federal budget.
“Therefore, the actions of a super massive coalition of 62 countries on the territory of Syria are illegal, even though they bomb ISIL militants”. By eliminating Assad’s opponents, Moscow can re-legitimize the Assad government by presenting the West with a stark choice: either support Assad or support Islamic State.
Putin’s masterstroke was in realizing that by intervening in Syria he could gather up a few valuable chips that he could use in other negotiations and at the same time embarrass the Obama White House by demonstrating how ineffectual President Obama’s policy in Syria had become. “In the meantime, we can negotiate and explore various ways of how best to accomplish this”!
The Syrian government’s long-expected offensive against the country’s rebel forces has begun. He noted that the world has abandoned Syrians leaving them in the hands of Russians and Iranians. In a politically correct tone, Putin gave an unbiased assessment of major challenges that mankind has faced and what the United Nations could do at this point.
The Russian warplanes started on Wednesday its air strikes against rebel positions in several Syrian areas, marking the first Russian military involvement in the war on terrorist groups in Syria.
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Ismael Hossein-zadeh is Professor Emeritus of Economics (Drake University). S. president Barack Obama as indecisive and ineffectual.
