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Originally Posted by over the mountain
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What the article completely missed is the way Russia and US want to accomplish their goals. US has been trying arming groups and sanctions to fight SA (Syrian Army, Assad's forces). Russia is trying supporting the SA with material, troops if necessary, and airstrikes (many against the rebels the US supports).
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Now, clearly, Russia and Iran have no intention of transitioning from Assad and have doubled down.
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Wrong.
Putin meets Saudi prince on 'political solution' in Syria
The "political compromise", discussed for a long time by RUS, is over the removal of Assad.
The difference between Russia and US goals, is US wants to transition from rebel victors to democracy (not realistic given Libya, Iraq, etc.), and Russia wants to transition from Assad regime to similar Russian-aligned regime (may be least of evils there, at least it's not ISIS.)
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I for the most part am an Obama supporter but the murica! part of me says "lets puff out our chest and show them whose boss" ..... but another side of me is like "why are we soo overly involved in the ME?'. I understand we have to support SA and oil prices etc.
cant we maintain a superior economic and military advantage if we diverted the trillions in resources to another strategy?
the ME is like a game of Monopoly to me. Super powers are just proxy fighting for property on the boards to maintain or gain a monopoly.
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Oil still makes the world (economically) go round. One good thing about running out of "peak oil", will be much of ME going back to being safely ignored.
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only now Russia and Iran arent just proxy fighting anymore.
im sure russia knows not to have an accidental incident w one of our planes bc im sure russia wants us to stay non-committed.
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I wouldn't be surprised if something like that has already happened, and it's kept under wraps because neither US or RUS want a direct confrontation there.