Posted on 09/13/2015 7:54:14 AM PDT by Rusty0604
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.
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Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his Russian, French and Ukrainian counterparts in Berlin on Saturday evening and said afterwards he saw growing support for creating an international contact group to solve the Syrian conflict.
Earlier, a delegation source said Steinmeier and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a lengthy exchange about Syria on the sidelines of the meeting, with both agreeing to support the U.N. Syrian envoy, Staffan de Mistura's plan to create a Syrian contact group.
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As a former East German socialist miraculously become a capitalist... she would help the “mother State” sovietski.
Same book, different chapter. And, wanting rampant muzzie influx to Deutschland so it would “change” the country ie make it a client state of Russia, as would be the EU if it keeps going this way.
Who are the good guys in Syria? I can’t tell.
Putin is laughing hysterically as the West commits cultural suicide. The death will not be painless. Western culture was once protected and championed by Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and John Paul II. Today its demise is led by the decadent and hedonistic Obama, the demented ex Communist Merkel and the socialist, historically ignorant, Argentine Pope.
No one knows.
Great comparison.
How far we have fallen.
You gave a good characterization of the three persons. I tend to believe that most people do not know/realize that Merkel came from the communist enclave that was East Berlin.
“Putin is laughing hysterically as the West commits cultural suicide.”
I doubt that. At the end of the day, the US, Europe and Russia should be in the same trench fighting off the Islamic nihilists. One Worlders in D.C. and Brussels have fomented this division on purpose. Russia could not stand alone against an Islamic or Globalist West, Central Asia and an indifferent at best China which covets Russian land.
Eventually the Germans will be forced to admit that Assad is not causing this refugee surge
Putin’s poodle.
Right now a lot of the world is starting to see Russia as the good guy in Syria because they are taking on ISIS
Interesting times, eh?
Soon all of Europe being invaded by muslims will be joining in
“ help us obi wan Ben Putin, you’re our only hope!”
There are no good guys in Syria. Assad or another strongman is the only way to hold a place as such together.Certainly not the tribal chaos that results from attempts to install a ‘democracy’. How stupid to think that could work there with those people.
When? I read that France’s solution to the refugee problem is to bomb Assad. I bet a lot of refugees are claiming that they are fleeing Assad because they want the Islamist rebels to completely take over Syria. But of course they won’t return to their homeland.
Do you really think so? Russia already has a constant threat it deals with from Muslim maniacs. If they over-run Europe, it'll be tough to stop them from going global.
Smartest thing at this time is for them all to acknowledge their common cause, save Assad and Syria, and send the refugees back there, highly regulated by countries who have the guts to do it right.
I could imagine Putin laughing hysterically if Obama's reputation is brought down to a state of repulsion and scorn.
My fantasy would be Obama getting hauled in front of the World Court for supporting terrorism.
-— starting to see Russia as the good guy in Syria because they are taking on ISIS
If you constantly ‘lead from behind’ others will find someone who will lead from the front.
-— starting to see Russia as the good guy in Syria because they are taking on ISIS
If you constantly ‘lead from behind’ others will find someone who will lead from the front.
Don't know who is behind the sudden wave to Europe but it is interesting that it coincides with Russian intervention in Syria. Perhaps it is a joint effort by Putin and hussein.
It didn’t work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya...
That double post was technical.
Funny how we never heard about Ukraine since the Iran plan talks and Russia takes credit for the plan.
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