{"id":11925,"date":"2015-09-06T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2015-09-06T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:07:28","slug":"russian-military-presence-in-syria-risks-confrontation-with-us-backed-forces-kerry-warns-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11925","title":{"rendered":"Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov<\/a><\/h3>\n

On Friday, Vladimir Putin\u00a0conceded<\/a>\u00a0that the scope of Russian military involvement in Syria is \u201cquite serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a replay of the Kremlin\u2019s official line regarding Russian involvement in Ukraine, Putin did not admit that his soldiers were on the ground to play a direct combat role.<\/p>\n

However, the Russian President\u2019s comments did suggest that Moscow\u2019s logistical and technical assistance goes far beyond the purely \u201cpolitical\u201d cover the Kremlin has granted Assad via Moscow\u2019s Security Council veto. It also suggests that Russia isn\u2019t prepared to accept a Syrian state controlled by a puppet government likely to be sympathetic to Washington and Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Of course the official reason for Moscow\u2019s presence in Syria is the same as the Washington\u2019s: they\u2019re both there, ostensibly, to fight ISIS.<\/p>\n

For those who still do not understand that ISIS has become, as we put it earlier, \u201ca kind of catch-all, go-to excuse for legitimizing whatever one feels like doing,\u201d the situation in Syria can be extraordinarily confusing.\u00a0<\/strong>For instance, at least one mainstream media outlet was having quite a difficult time on Saturday trying to understand why the US seems so concerned about Russia\u2019s presence in Syria when both sides are supposed to be after the same thing – that is, defeating terrorism. The reason is because both sides are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0in fact after the same thing, and neither of which cares too much about what does or doesn\u2019t happen to ISIS unless the group\u2019s fate somehow matters in determining whether a post-civil war Syria is still governed by Assad. In short, ISIS has played its role. The Assad regime is destabilized and Damascus is up for grabs. From here on out, it\u2019s all about whether a\u00a0coalition<\/a>\u00a0comprised of the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar ends up in a direct military conflict with Russia and the Assad regime. That would be the geopolitical \u201cmain event.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov On Friday, Vladimir Putin\u00a0conceded\u00a0that the scope of Russian military involvement in Syria is \u201cquite serious.\u201d In a replay of the Kremlin\u2019s official line regarding Russian involvement in Ukraine, Putin did not admit that his soldiers were on the ground to play a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[446,8763,471,8764,542,660,694,776,821,827,834,865,4318],"class_list":["post-11925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-isis","tag-kerry","tag-kremlin","tag-lavrov","tag-moscow","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}