If the New York Times reports that the sky is blue and grass is green I would look out a window to see for myself. The New York Times is a Globalist Bankster propaganda rag.
Uncle Scam and its sodomite EU comrades are supply Christian slaughtering Al-Qaeda foreign mercenaries with high tech anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria. It makes me question Uncle Scam's motivation for supporting firebomb throwing Neo-Nazis in their overthrow of legitimate government of Ukraine.
But not whether Putin is a liar, apparently.