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Vladimir Putin orders Russian forces to begin withdrawal from Syria
UK Guardian ^ | March 14, 2016 | Patrick Wintour

Posted on 03/14/2016 11:03:33 AM PDT by C19fan

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has declared that he is withdrawing the majority of Russian troops from Syria, saying the intervention had largely achieved its objective.

The news, relayed to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, personally, followed a meeting in the Kremlin with Putin’s defence and foreign ministers. He said the pullout, reducing an intervention that began at the end of September, is due to start from Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: bleedingulcer; bodybags; goingbroke; isis; outofmoney; putinsyriawithdraw; russia; russiasyria; syriarebels; syriawar
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To: henkster
"Neocons take note."

Why now? Never worked before.

121 posted on 03/15/2016 4:29:53 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: TomasUSMC
What a mess Obama/hilliary have made.

Darnold, please take note!

122 posted on 03/15/2016 4:33:18 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: TomasUSMC; All

And why did Bush/Cheney start that mess in the first place without funding it. They thought we would get the oil and pay for the war that way.

Regarding drawing of boundaries. During the colonial period boundaries were drawn to put enemies in the same countries—divide and rule the goal. This has made a mess of the middle east, east and west Africa among other places. Perhaps the boundaries could be redrawn and an international commission set up for each region and money for resources allocated fairly among the redrawn countries. A whole lot of negotiation, but perhaps less warfare.


123 posted on 03/15/2016 9:31:22 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Trumpinator

My son fought in Gulf War 1 and he definitely believes that the Kurds should have an autonomous region or an independent country. Am I correct in my understanding the the Turkish Kurds are somehow connected with Communism, and the Russians to a considerable extent?

See my comment #123 regarding the problem of countries with unnatural borders. Of course to implement such a program a great deal of preliminary negotiation would be needed


124 posted on 03/15/2016 9:38:17 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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