US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Monday that Russia is pursuing a "losing strategy" in Syria and that it must live up to its commitments in Ukraine.
Speaking in Madrid at the start of a five-day trip to Europe, Carter told Spanish military officials that by carrying out bombing in Syria, Russia had only worsened the 4.5-year-old conflict.
Russia last week started air strikes in Syria. Moscow claimed it was hitting Islamic State jihadists, but the Pentagon says Russian jets are targeting rebel groups in order to support the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
"Russia has escalated the civil war, putting further at risk the very political resolution and preservation of Syria's structure of future governance it says that it wants," Carter said at the Center for Strategic Studies and Defence.
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3 comments:
next they will send them a strongly-worded letter!
Defence?
Yeah, 106, that thing around your yard!
Seriously,though, the Jihadists AND the rebel groups are one in the same; ISIS,AlQaida, etc!
Our Pentagon denies this so they can help ISIS with guns and money to overthrow Asaad,who the people there voted for unanimously.
Folks, listen to the ones that know the region, not our government propagandists and the MSM.
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