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The American view on the Syrian crisis is largely one of confusion and uncertainty. Generally, we Americans have a difficult time rationalizing what America’s purpose in the conflict should be. Still, we generally believe that Russia’s involvement is an attempt by Putin to ...
... a schizophrenic asylum of extreme paradoxes: While its internal politics reverberates with fake news-mediated recriminations, Americans yet find merit in the same disinformation machinery that facilitates false flags abroad.The US is now threatening Syria over an imminent “chemical weapons attack” without offering a shred of proof to the international community. Then again, the last time the US resorted to due UNSC process had resulted instead in wars and mayhem that continue till today. The ...
... NATO-member Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft in November 2015 — an action that tested the NATO-Russia relationship, even if Turkey and Russia eventually came to terms in the aftermath. Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly used chemical weaponry 3 . The U.S. likewise refused to participate in a conference involving 11 regional actors on the conflict in Afghanistan, which had been sponsored by Moscow on April ...
... Escalation? On June 19, 2017, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation announced it was halting interaction with the United States as part of the memorandum of understanding to minimize the risk of in-flight incidents between aircraft operating in Syrian airspace. The move came in reaction to the downing of a Syrian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 warplane by a U.S. Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet. Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) member and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian ...
... jihadist chaos and political disintegration and worsened Washington’s relations with Moscow, which felt misled into supporting the Libyan intervention. The result was the intensification of Russian support for Bashar Assad’s beleaguered regime in Syria. In 2013, when Obama reneged on his chemical weapon red line in Syria, Putin got a first-hand indication of what “strategic patience” really meant. Thus, when Moscow’s corrupt client, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by ...
... Council. On June 21 Magne Barth, head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in Russia, Belarus and Moldova, visited Russian International Affairs Council. The visitor spoke about ICRC humanitarian programs in Syria and in the Eastern Ukraine, discussed the possible areas for the improvement of the international humanitarian cooperation efficiency in crisis situation, including cooperation with Russian civil society institutions.
The Syrian experience may prove to be a model for a new approach to the organization of the army In November 2016, the Command of the Syrian Army announced the creation of a new military force, the Fifth Assault Corps. Since the Russian Aerospace Forces ...
Trump is still a danger to America and the world. But if he exercises American power in a way that will help save lives and give a brutal tyrant and his backers pause in their relentless, murderous assault on the people of Syria, those claiming to care about refugees, human rights, and human life would do those stated cares justice in supporting a long-overdue substantive pushback against the outrages of Assad and his Russian friends. If you truly want to support refugees,...
A large number of structures scattered and not fully controlled by Damascus lays a time bomb under Syria RIAC Working Paper “Proposals on Building a Regional Security System in West Asia and North Africa” The most serious problems of the regime during the initial stages of the war were manning the SAA, the absence of mobile forces and light ...
... coherent policy is at all possible under his Administration. Against this backdrop Barack Obama’s policy towards the region may be described as rational and pragmatic despite leaving a deeply controversial legacy. Alexey Khlebnikov: Will U.S. Attack on Syria Be a Game-Changer? Mr. Obama came into the Oval Office in 2008 with the goal of reshaping the US engagement in the Middle East after the damaging eight years of George Bush’s policy in the region. All in all, in 2008 he inherited the two longest ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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