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WEST NEEDS RUSSIA’S HELP TO FIGHT ISIS AND ASSAD CAN STAY, FRANCE’S MACRON SAYS
Newsweek ^ | 6/21 | TOM O'CONNOR ON

Posted on 06/23/2017 1:03:19 PM PDT by Veto!

"Macron said Assad, who enjoys support from Russia and Iran, was not the enemy of France and that, with Russia’s support, French foreign policy in Syria would focus on targeting jihadist groups, whose supporters have killed hundreds in France...." " Interesting article. Headline says it all.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: assad; macron; russia; syria
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I never thought I'd agree with Macron about anything, but this time I do. Been saying this for months and months, and The Donald wanted to open lines of communication with Russia to negotiate, I suspect, something closer to Macron's position.
1 posted on 06/23/2017 1:03:19 PM PDT by Veto!
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I agree also.

Even and idiot like Macron will get it right once in a blue moon.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 1:04:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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Someone tell this idiot that Russian and France are part of the west.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 1:04:48 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Veto!

The froggy grandma humping whacko is right.

sorry, these honkies are okay with me and when muzzies kill each other, it’s good.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 1:05:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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Well France has a long history in Syria and pajama boy macron is showing some decent sense.


5 posted on 06/23/2017 1:16:09 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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Agree with Macron. Never thought I would type THAT...


6 posted on 06/23/2017 1:23:23 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Veto!

West does not need Russia to fight ISIS in Syria. But the U.S. does need support of Russia in brokering a good solution to power in Syria after ISIS.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 1:27:22 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Hopefully there is an “after ISIS.”

Any way we wiggle this around to try to make it fit, Westerners inevitably get stuck straddling the Sunni v. Shiite mess...


8 posted on 06/23/2017 1:36:49 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Veto!

I also agree.


9 posted on 06/23/2017 1:51:04 PM PDT by tiki
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If even a globalist puppet like Macron is saying this, the jig is up for the McCain-Clinton Rebellion.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 2:15:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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Macron got one right? I’m impressed!


11 posted on 06/23/2017 2:35:49 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Wow, geez, did not expect that from Macron. Herr Merkel is going to raise hell.
12 posted on 06/23/2017 2:38:53 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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“””If even a globalist puppet like Macron is saying this, the jig is up for the McCain-Clinton Rebellion.”””

From your lips to God’s ears.


13 posted on 06/23/2017 2:45:14 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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Russian collusion!!! Impeach him! What a trumpist he is.


14 posted on 06/23/2017 3:13:04 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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Far more than Sunni/Shia.

Kurds are secular in Syria.

Assad = Alawites (Shia, way light)

Turks are Islamist. Like MB and ISIS.

Arabs in N. Syria have seen ISIS, never want to go there again.

As a consequence of ISIS brutality, the communities liberated by the Kurds & later the SDF have formed their own local assemblies by election. Largely representing in proportion to ethnic makeup.

There is far more support for secular government after ISIS.

I don’t know about Syria farther to the South.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 3:35:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Don’t forget the Alawite ideology of nepotism.

They are 10% of the population, but rule everything. That doesn’t seem a good long term solution to me as all these high birth rate countries have anyway the problem of young men frustrated with having little chance for the future and now you add to that the 90% are out of the game right after they’re born with their best hope being working hard to get some scraps from some Alawite’s table.


16 posted on 06/23/2017 4:07:07 PM PDT by Krosan
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Never trust a Frenchie a Russian or a Muslim....


17 posted on 06/23/2017 4:29:39 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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I agree with Macron. I wish someone would help Trump get his mind right about Syria.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 4:38:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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Yes, I knew the rules were rigged. But no one had told me it was pure nepotism. I knew it was father to son despots. But did not know that all the top jobs were too.

Kurds are really good people. I know some of them very well. Have learned a lot about them over the past 3+ years.


19 posted on 06/23/2017 4:58:43 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Several of us have mentioned that there will be alliances formed between the US, Russia, and several European countries in order to exterminate the Islamic pigs.. Eventually we will tire of the mass murderers, the serial killers, and the moderates who provide the funds for the murder of the innocent and unarmed civilized world. Either we submit or we kill millions of these Muslim pigs.


20 posted on 06/23/2017 6:07:01 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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