Contents tagged with russia; syria; war
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The Russian bear in sheep’s clothing
As written by Andrew Foxall of The New York Times:
Syria is being destroyed. The civil war, now more than four years old, has left the country in ruins. The implacable Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant controls vast areas of the north and east, and the barbaric regime of President Bashar al-Assad maintains its Damascus stronghold.
The Western powers — the United States, Canada and Europe — have no good options to combat the Islamic State, but they can’t do nothing. Either they must work …
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