Nikki Haley

Following missile strike Tillerson and McMaster try to repair the damage

That Friday’s missile strike on Sharyat air base was an impulsive and ill-judged move ordered by an inexperienced and emotional President after seeing television pictures of dead children gained further support on Sunday when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the President’s National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster both gave television interviews which bore all the hallmarks of a damage limitation exercise.

Putin Will Not Meet Tillerson In Russia, As Confusion Grows Over US Policy Toward Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and then-acting Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson, left, attend a signing ceremony of an agreement between state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft and Exxon Mobil corporation at the Black Sea port of Tuapse, Russia, June 15, 2012. (AP/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev)

BREAKING: Trump administration threatens new sanctions on Russia and Iran

Speaking with CNN’s erstwhile Trump opponent Jake Tapper, US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that Donald Trump is all ready considering further sanctions against Russia and Iran as part of the Trump administration’s new Syria policy.
After telling Tapper that further sanctions were ‘not off the table’, she said,

Russian MP Calls Haley’s Words on Syrian Peace Impossibility ‘Sabotage’

Sputnik – 09.04.2017 US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s words on impossibility of political resolution in Syria while President Bashar Assad stays in power is an attempt to derail the international efforts on Syrian settlement, Konstantin Kosachev, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian upper house of parliament, said Sunday. […]

WITHOUT PROOF: Washington’s ‘Gaslighting’ Over Syrian Chemical Attack Propels US Missile Strikes

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
Leaders in Washington and Western media outlets have once again set the stage for wider military intervention in Syria. Days after the release of a forensically unproven chemical attack out of Khan Shaykhun, US President Donald Trump ordered a military strike on the Syrian government’s Shayrat Air Base.