Posted on 09/30/2016 11:13:33 AM PDT by keat
Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its campaign of air strikes, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as Moscow defied global censure over an escalation that Western countries say has torpedoed diplomacy.
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the Russian and Syrian bombing of the city of Aleppo as "barbarous", the White House said after the two leaders spoke by telephone.
Fighting intensified a week into a new Russian-backed government offensive to capture all of Syria's largest city and crush the last remaining urban stronghold of the rebellion.
Moscow and its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, spurned a ceasefire agreed this month to launch the offensive, potentially the biggest and most decisive battle in the Syrian civil war which is now in its sixth year.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow was ready to consider more ways to normalize the situation in Aleppo.
But in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Lavrov criticized Washington's failure to separate moderate rebel groups from those the Russians call terrorists, which had allowed forces led by the group formerly known as the Nusra front to violate the truce brokered by Moscow and Washington.
The call came a day after Kerry said there was no point pursuing further negotiations with Russia over Syria "in the context of the kind of bombing taking place".
Western countries accuse Russia of war crimes, saying it has deliberately targeted civilians, hospitals and aid deliveries in recent days to crush the will of 250,000 people trapped inside Aleppo's besieged rebel-held sector.
Moscow and Damascus say they have targeted only militants.
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Obama/US - Losing (Protecting Terrorists)
It's a full-court press by Obama to shame Russia on Syria. This article could only have come straight from the White House. How do I know? Simple, there is little or no mention in any of these articles about Iran, who is contributing the ground forces to these assaults. Iran, who Obama dares not call out.
I'll be flamed as usual but I just don't like to see America, my county, played like this. Others are OK with it.
No, there are no options now that Russia and Iran are in there.
Medieval war for the Medieval enemy.
What world anger? I and a lot of other people are cheering this on. With the fall of the city the civil war will come to an end shortly after. Death to the jihadists.
Russia started bombing a year ago ,why all the fuss now ? Obama’s side losing big time ?
I’m not angry. Russia can drop all the bombs on muslims they want.
This is the most screwed up, destructive proxy-war I have ever seen, brought to us by Obama and Clinton.
They don’t even bother to give us the BS that its for “freedom and democracy for Syria.” Obama/Hillary couldn’t even name WHO she wants to take over, or if she knows, she wouldn’t admit it publicly (BTW - Trump should ask).
We are supporting Al Qaeda splinter groups, whose only control probably comes from the Saudis and the Gulf Arabs. So the USA is pushing for Sunni /Wahabbist takeover, and what most likely will be a Sunni-sponsored genocide afterwards.
Oh, and we want to poke Putin in the eye also.
And for that, Obama and Clinton are grinding Syria into dust.
Since when does Russia care?
If I were Russia, I would declare that if there is one more terrorist attack anywhere, that Mecca will become a glowing crater. Putin will simply get a bunch of angry letters that he can ignore
The truce went out the window when the US provided air support for the ISIS offensive.
This is the way you win wars, bomb the hell out them to they r all dead or give up. This is what it was back in the day at least it seems. Russia wants to win. And what the heck do we want, Obama/Hillary doesn’t even know. Leave Russia and Syria alone.
Tell that to the residents of Falluja, or Serbia...or the Highway of Death.
The Obama admin wants to have their cake and eat it too.
Imagine the terror felt by those in the Kremlin knowing these whackos are in charge of the US Military.
They'd be traitors to their own country if they didn't prepare.
Merkel and Obama want to import more of these terrorists and Assad wants to wipe them out.
How many days did Bubba Clinton bomb Serbia and other Balkan countries to deflect attention away from his many scandals?
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