She blows away the noise and goes right to the meat of the situation.
Glick’s statement: “The Syrian military is an empty shell.”
Is very believable. With years of fighting and most of the country in shreds I often wondered just how that army could be replenished both in terms of men and materiel sufficient to control whatever territory they still have.
Putin is supposed to suggest Trump give Mueller a detailed report on the summit.
The Trump strategy in Syria is working IMO. It’s a larger strategy to weaken and deplete Iranian forces and rollback Russian power in the region.
We need to keep our toehold in northern Syria to protect our allies there against Russia, Syria, Iran and Turkey. After all of the fighting is over, Russia and Iran will be handed the job of rebuilding Syria. Good luck with that!! It should keep them occupied and drain ever more precious resources....
John McCain needs ghost writers nowadays and it looks like Lindsey Graham had a hand in this writing.
The people who are hostile to Donald Trump, who linked him to Russia, who unleashed the Muller Inquisition are the people who hold anti-Russia, anti-Assad views like those expressed here must be viewed with suspicion.
The GOP leaders like McConnell and Ryan always prop Mueller up when Trump attacks the witch hunt.
While this assessment from an anti-Russia....pass the Novichok please....sarc...writer is being chewed over, the real fighting is going on in Syria.
Russia did not agree to an indefinite deconfliction zone in southwestern Syria. They considered the zone ended in April plus the Iranians were moved away from the southwest and are not participating in the current military action.
Lavrov is saying its unrealistic to expect a total Iranian withdrawal from Syria.
Trump and Putin will have to sort things out on July 16th and I hope they will be able to without this incident in the UK being used to sabotage their talks.
The Syrian military backed by the Russian airpower is pushing its way south to the Nassib crossing and west at Tafas betwwen Deraa and the Quneitra region.
We have Novichok being pushed by the UK and Iranian involvement being pushed from Israel and in between the two of them in the anti-Iran camp is the wealth of Saudi Arabia, home of Sunni Islam and the Al Qaeda jihadist movement whose fighters war against Assad in Syria.
Putin to meet Netanyahu five days before Trump
PM calls on European leaders to stop appeasing Iran, especially after Iranian-backed bombing plot in Paris.
July 4, 2018
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Putin-to-meet-Netanyahu-five-days-before-Trump-561488
Due to ice blocking the harbors and shipping lanes of far north Russia Putin is unable to deliver contracted LNG to his customers. That is a huge revenue cut.