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applegrove

(118,786 posts) Mon Sep 5, 2016, 02:00 AM Sep 2016

DAM. Russia and US fail to come to agreement on peace in Syria

during G20 CNN. I wonder if that rat bastard Putin only got into the Syria mess in order to have leverage over the west on things like the Ukraine. Whatever the case Obama didn't fall for it. Poor Syria. No 'Agreement to end the violence in syria'.

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DAM. Russia and US fail to come to agreement on peace in Syria (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2016 OP

Not sure it would have worked anyway.... Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #1

Yes there is more than one proxy war going on there. applegrove Sep 2016 #2

Yeah, it's bad enough to get into a 'normal' civil war... Wounded Bear Sep 2016 #3

Russia wants Assad to stay, US wants him out davidn3600 Sep 2016 #4

Wounded Bear

(58,713 posts)

1. Not sure it would have worked anyway....

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 5, 2016, 02:17 AM

Sep 2016

in any but a symbolic way. There are several factions there, and the recent Turkish incursion won't help. They're more interested in blocking the Kurds than anything else. Maybe they'll oppose ISIS, but it not a guarantee.

applegrove

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2. Yes there is more than one proxy war going on there.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 5, 2016, 02:19 AM

Sep 2016

Wounded Bear

(58,713 posts)

3. Yeah, it's bad enough to get into a 'normal' civil war...

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 5, 2016, 02:20 AM

Sep 2016

Syria has about 5 different sides and counting.

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)

4. Russia wants Assad to stay, US wants him out

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 5, 2016, 02:23 AM

Sep 2016

It's a bit of an impasse.

But more than anything, no one trusts anyone. We don't trust Russia. Russia does not trust us. In Turkey, Erdogan has become unpredictable. There are a lot of competing interests going on here.

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