Strikes me that rebuilding Syria and returning all the Syrian refugees would be a great end to a horrid misadventure in the Mideast.
It’s Russia’s Friend so they should do it
No....
” An icy reception”
Such bullshit
Someone tell the Pentagon we are NOT going back to the Cold war
If we dont work with Russia on this, then the Chinese will
We agree to help do this, but only if Iran pulls way back.
Putin leans on Iran. They pull back just far enough where Bibi is not quite satisfied, but can live with it, and the Iranians grumble too, but everybody saves face. Trump collects second Nobel Prize for Peace. Bill Kristol’s head explodes.
Upwards of 500,000 dead, eh? That should make Bill and Linda Gates happy - reducing the surplus population.
They’ve got a deadline to meet after all...
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I see no reason why the EU should not step up on this one.
It’s in THEIR interests.
The US has a peripheral interest, at best.
Obama OUT, Syrian war STOPPED. THAT'S the headline.
Let the EU start paying for the rebuilding around the world.
It’s only right. Obama, Mccain and the saudis helped destroy the place
Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html
I don’t think the US should bear most of the financial burden, but if the US and Russia and the Euros could work together to help resettle Syrian refugees, that could be a positive. And the Arab oil states could make substantial financial contributions.
And the US should assure Assad that if he and his supporters start mistreating any segment of the Syrian population in the future, stealth drones will be firing missiles through his bedroom window.
Obviously we are not on the same page
Not even in the same book
The reality is that western relations with Russia are overdue for a major reset
For a thousand years Europe sought to contend with Russia over territorial expansionism
After the Rus consolidated into a unified power under the Tsars, Europe sought to contend with their rivalry by various monarchical treaties
As the old monarchies declined in the face of nation-state political reform, Prussia- Bismarck sought to contend with Russia by including them in a complex European balancing act of international treaties and alliances
When that system failed ( actually contributed to WW1) the Europeans sought to contend with Russia by allying with them as a counterbalance to a Prusso-German domination of Europe under the Kaiser
When after WW1 the Russian nation fell to tearing itself apart under the horrific ideology of the Bolsheviks, Europe sought to contend by alliance looking west to the Atlantic, with the US and Britain, based on industrialization and financial ties
When the Treaty of Versailles led the scorned resentful Germans to turn to an Axis with Japan to rebel against western-dominated industrial hegemony - and the Nazi party rose - the West decided that Russian Marxists were again allies against Nazis and the Axis
When the allies ( including Russia) defeated Germany - Russia was again excluded based on fears of ideological contamination by the Red Menace against western values - even outright territorial invasion
And this is where too many thinkers have stopped
Seeing Russia as a hostile adversary based on rhetoric and military vs military posturing for the past 70 years
Enough
One leader had the vision to defeat the Soviet Union with ideas and economics not weapons
That was Reagan
Now another man has the vision to see the world not as it was in the past, but as it should be now and must be in the future
We cannot pay the price that would be demanded of us to rule and regulate the world - simply cannot
So whence for our future well being and security?
I believe this article is one of the best I've read
Total realism
A tri-polar world
Based on negotiation and cooperation, backed by true national strength
(which is military AND economic AND socially cohesive around our national identity )
No one says its going to be easy to transition and Trump is up against the very forces of hell resisting a future new international order
If ever there was a man for the job -we’ve got him
I bring you: Trump's Grand Strategy
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176451/tomgram:_michael_klare,_trump’s_grand_strategy/
Hillary would have done it. Not Trump.
Why the hell is Russia so heavily invested in this ME shithole? Weapons, Oil and Gas?
I fail to see how Syria pays them for anything at all.
Why should we even consider it? They never saw fit to let us help reduce or eliminate all the (BLEEPIN) carnage!!!
Repatriate the refugees and let them rebuild it.