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The Russia-US agreement on a de-escalation zone in southwestern Syria Aleksandr Aksenenok: In the Skies over Syria: Rivalry Instead of Coordinated Actions The main result of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
... which have grown too friendly. It appears that the future Saudi monarch has decided, as is his wont, to set the record straight. When it comes to Russia, Riyadh is in two minds. On the one hand, serious differences remain between the two countries on Syria. On the other hand, both Riyadh and Moscow welcomed the change of power in Egypt in 2013 and continue to jointly support President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In particular, there are reasons to believe that Egypt's massive procurement of Russian weapons ...
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,...
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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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