Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.
Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria is simply the maintenance of its longtime ally President Bashar al-Assad in power. Indeed, Moscow has hitherto shown little appetite to focus on ISIS.
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.
Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin's pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests.
Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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