[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Russia is going to hand over Assad and $2 billion to the new “leaders” of Syria so they can keep their military bases there."

Predicting the future again? You never did answer an earlier question re: "how about "...'next week's negotiations between Trump team and Ukraine in DC.' Have you a source?"

Posting the same story twice within a couple of hours is odd? This early AM EST a lot won't be seeing it. Post it again, huh?

[marcusmaximus]

Is Putin going to let Russia be evicted from their only Mediterranean port just to protect Assad? I don’t think so.

[kiryandil]

Posting the same story twice within a couple of hours is odd? This early AM EST a lot won't be seeing it. Post it again, huh?

marcus's Special Syria Sock ain't gonna fill itself...

The starch has gone out of the Special Ukraine Sock [was it really starch?], now that Toretsk and Velikaya Novosyolka have both been liberated from the Azov Nazis...