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Aleppo teeters but no sign of US action
[CNN] As Aleppo teeters on the brink of falling to Syrian regime forces, there is no consensus in the B.O. regime on what, if any, action to take to help the beleaguered opposition with which the US is allied, several American officials have told CNN.The administration may have less than a week before regime and Russian attacks result in Aleppo's collapse, potentially displacing tens of thousands of civilians and worsening the strategic environment for the United States, according to one internal US government calculation. The B.O. regime has blamed Russia for the collapse of a ceasefire negotiated more than a week ago by Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which would have stopped the fighting around Aleppo and paved the way for joint US-Russian military cooperation against terrorist groups in Syria. In a phone call with Lavrov on Wednesday, Kerry threatened to "suspend US-Russia bilateral engagement on Syria ... unless Russia takes immediate steps to end the assault on Aleppo and restore the cessation of hostilities," according to a State Department statement. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-29 |
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