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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 05:12 PM Apr 2017

Relationship with Russia was confusing enough

David Klion
Tuesday 11 April 2017 12.57 EDT

On Tuesday, the US secretary of state ..arrived in Moscow to meet with his Russian counterpart .. to discuss a way forward in Syria ...

Syria is directly protected by Russia ... A .. war against Syria.. risks a .. war against Russia ...

... Tillerson ... the former CEO of Exxon Mobil .. has a direct financial stake in lifting US sanctions leveled against Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, which would allow his former company to make billions in the Arctic ...

Trump has been accused of being a Russian puppet by some and a militarist by others, but the reality may be .. he has no idea what he’s doing, and can be cajoled into supporting wildly contradictory policies by anyone ...


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/11/donald-trump-russia-rex-tillersons-visit-syria

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Relationship with Russia was confusing enough (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2017 OP
we want an outsider, they said.. it'd be great ,they said JHan Apr 2017 #1
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