Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama have discussed the situation in Syria and Ukraine in an informal meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey. RT
Washington Post editorial: Teaming up with Russia in Syria could be a dangerous false step for the U.S.
THE PARIS attacks created a tactical opportunity for Vladimir Putin. For two months the Russian ruler sought to persuade Arab and Western nations to join what he described as an alliance against the Islamic State, even as a Russian offensive in Syria targeted Western-backed Syrian rebel forces. He was spurned, and his military campaign bogged down. Now, in the wake of Paris, French President François Hollande suddenly has become a convert to the grand-alliance idea; he has scheduled visits to Washington and Moscow next week to promote it.
Mr. Putin is doing his best to look like a potential partner. On Tuesday, after weeks of obfuscation, his government suddenly confirmed that the Islamic State was responsible for the bombing of a Russian airliner last month, and Russian forces carried out a rare wave of attacks against the Islamic State capital, Raqqa. The Kremlin has much to gain: An alliance could mean the end of European sanctions against Russia, which will expire in January unless renewed, and the concession of a Russian say over the future of Syria and perhaps also Ukraine, where Russian-backed forces have resumed daily attacks.
WNU Editor: A U.S. - Russian alliance on what to do in Syria is not going to happen. The positions, agendas, and objectives ... the differences are too many. On top of all that ... the Russians see President Obama as a lame duck and will only cooperate with him on an issue by issue basis.
5 comments:
WNU Editor,
Wow, that's quite the conterfactual load,
Even for the WaPo.
Big butthurt, for the "Indispensible Nation".
Somebody needs to rush a waaaambulance over to the WaPo Editorial Offices, stat.
Jay. The WaPo is so clued out on what is the mindset in Moscow right .... I just do not know where to start.
WNU Editor,
They are not just clueless on Russia, there clueless on the ME, the ROW, and have become pretty much divorced from reality.
"The [George W. Bush] aide, [Narcissus], … said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Jay farquharson
I can't tell you the matrix to get to know the matrix you need to see it for yourself .
So what pill you are going to take. take the blue pill and tomorrow you will Wake up like nothing happened. or take the red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole is.... Morfeo 1999
Si-vis-passen,
Sadly, I am one of those reality based guys, well aware that the red pill is heroin, and the blue pill is acid,
Which is why I don't write those fantasy football " what could be done" opus's, but instead, stick to the reality of what will be done or not done.
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