caused by the United States failure to ascertain what exactly its red line was or what its response would be, Russia seized on the opportunity and took the initiative, lead by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, to gain the political upper handagainst the United States in the region ...
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in Syria. Tweezing out Syria from its control is meant to convey to Russia that it can hurt if it does not withdraw from Ukraine and Crimea. Russia has its back against the wall, even when social media is full of conspiracy theories of how Assad was dumped by Russia...
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“A political solution is always the only realistic means to resolve the Syria issue,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. Like Russia, China also walked out of Wednesday’s U.N. Security Council meeting where Britain planned to pursue a resolution on Syria. ...
“Russia’s backing of (Syrian President Bashar) al-Assad is not only driven by the need to preserve its naval presence in the Mediterranean, secure its energy contracts, or counter the West on ‘regime change,’”said Anna Neistat, an associate program director at Human Rights Watch. “It ...