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)
After supporting Donald Trump’s missile strike on Syria, John McCain is once again criticising the Trump administration.
When asked if the White House bore some responsibility for the chemical attack that McCain claims Syria was responsible for, he responded by saying,
After firmly uniting behind regime change in Syria on the 6th of April, the Trump administration is yet again openly displaying signs of disorganised foreign policy chaos over Syria.
21st Century Wire says…
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tells us that the war on Syria can only be solved through a ‘political process’. Wait, didn’t Nikki Haley just say “…getting Assad out is not the only priority, we don’t see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there”.
1. The Russophobic Press
The press who have spent years calling President Putin a dictator, a tyrant and a threat to world peace are very disappointed today. Their disappointment stems from the fact that Russia’s response to the illegal and unprovoked attack on Syria will be defensive measures that are legal and and proportionate to the US instigated provocation.
The US missile strike on Syria’s Sharyat air base provides a good opportunity to compare the sharply different approaches the US and the Russia have to the use of force.
The Russians use force sparingly as an instrument of state policy to advance what they see as their national interests. Every Russian military endeavour since the end of the Second Word War has been judged and carried out to further some concrete objective of the Russian state.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have had a phone call where the two exchanged their views on the US attack of Syria’s Sharyat airbase.
Lavrov chastised the US justification for the attack as ‘inaccurate and inconclusive’.
Even at this late hour, Lavrov called for an international investigation into US claims, this in spite of the fact that the US has apparently all ready made up its mind.
Foreign Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that yesterday’s missile strike demonstrates that the US is the ‘..most unpredictable state in the world’ and that the illegal missile attack on Syria had nothing to do with finding out the truth behind the recent chemical weapons attack near Idlib.
In an interview with Rossiya-1 Zakharova said,
The entirety of international corporate media seems to have completely forgotten – or deliberately omitted – the fact that the Syrian government had officially completed the removal of its last remaining chemical weapons stockpile as of June 23rd 2014. This was apparently confirmed by the United Nations Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as […]
Alors que les médias français ont le regard rivé sur la campagne présidentielle, une évolution diplomatique majeure est survenue en fin de semaine dernière dans le dossier syrien.
En effet, Washington et Paris, qui campaient depuis des années sur une position stricte, arrêtées sur l’idée que le règlement de la crise syrienne ne pouvait passer que par le départ de Bachar el-Assad, ont successivement infléchi leur position.
