Posted on 09/22/2015 2:15:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Russia has now confirmed that it is intervening in the Syrian war on the side of the Assad government; and, as Al-Arabiya's Azeem Ibrahim notes, the response of the U.S. betrays its impotent incredulity. Russia is poised to return to the Middle East, from which it was ejected with the collapse of the USSR. The United States seems to be telling Russia to go ahead, because, as Raghida Dergham explains, it is unwilling to engage – though it is not yet ready to fully retreat.
Authored by Raghida Dergham, originally posted at Al-Arabiya News,
At the end of this month, New York will be see several initiatives, talks, understandings, and deals come together under two main themes: terrorism and immigration. Both issues in the minds of world leaders are closely linked to Syria and other crises in the Arab world.
The U.S. President Barack Obama called for a world summit on terrorism, with ISIS first and foremost in his mind.
And Russian President Vladimir Putin tasked his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to chair a ministerial session of the U.N. Security Council titled “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Settlement of Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and Countering the Terrorist Threat in the Region.”
President Putin has effectively declared to the world that Russia intends to fight a war directly against ISIS and similar groups in Syria, while keeping the Syrian regime as a key ally in this war. Russia wants the United States to be a military partner – including of the Syrian regime – in this bid.
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Putin took Obola at his word that he’d have more flexibility after the election.
Yep and now it looks like Russia has a beachhead in the Middle East.
Right next to Israel.
With them gone, it seems Syria and Russia can maintain and expand a highly regulated safe zone. Anyone causes trouble or tries to sneak in, shoot them on sight!
Don’t forget Iran is sending troops too.
Stick a fork in ISIS in Syria.... they are done.
Now the Russians have a beach head because we did not take out ISIS when we had a chance.
Putin isn't that dumb
He knows it will be counting on Iran to handle Iraq
Sorry, Putin, Ayatollah Obama is busy with climate change and destroying America. His plate is full.
Would not be surprised if Putin offers assistance to Eastern European countries bucking the Brussels-EU mandate to accept “refugees”... “or else”.
I think Israel and Russia can work together
The handshake yesterday between Putin and BiBi was not forced
As long as the ships sail, the planes fly, and the oil and gas flows and our inept administrative passes from the scene without scheming the region into WW3
After all, how many Israelis are Russian émigrés? About a million?
Russia and Assad to the West, Iran to the east and in southern Iraq
, and then there’s obama and johnkerry
Bottled up as unwelcome guests in central Iraq like the crap in a crap sandwich
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Should this be true, knowing that the US looks after Iraq, were I Isis, I'd take the first bus to Iraq. The small number of US backed forces in Syria, you're screwed, time to change sides. Unless you can get a refugee ticket.
So you mean electing an Ignorant, Lazy, Stupid, but very arrogant man to the office of the Presidency just because he was black, was not a good idea?
Who would have thought that a Lazy, Stupid, Ignorant, but very arrogant man with no experience at anything other than scooping ice cream, wouldn't be able to do the Job of a President?
Total shock.
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