{"id":17707,"date":"2016-02-12T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:43:34","slug":"russian-pm-warns-us-saudis-against-starting-permanent-war-with-ground-intervention-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17707","title":{"rendered":"Russian PM warns US, Saudis against starting \u2018permanent war\u2019 with ground intervention in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian PM warns US, Saudis against starting \u2018permanent war\u2019 with ground intervention in Syria\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev \u00a9 Ekaterina Shtukina \/ Sputnik<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev told German media that sending foreign troops into Syria could unleash \u201cyet another war on Earth.\u201d The warning follows increasingly aggressive statements made by Saudi Arabia and Turkey amid Bashar Assad\u2019s gains in Aleppo.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAll sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating table, instead of unleashing yet another war on Earth,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Medvedev told Germany\u2019s Handelsblatt newspaper.\u00a0\u201cAny kinds of land operations, as a rule, lead to a permanent war. Look at what\u2019s happened in Afghanistan and a number of other countries. I am not even going to bring up poor Libya.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The PM was commenting on recent statements from Saudi Arabia claiming that it was ready to send ground troops to Syria, should Washington lead the way.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war? Do they think they can really quickly win it? It is impossible, especially in the Arab world. Everyone is fighting against everyone there,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Medvedev added. The interview was published on the eve of the International Syria Support Group meeting in Munich, where the cessation of hostilities in Syria became a top item on the agenda.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the situation in Syria has been heating up, as Syrian government troops have been making advances in the northern city of Aleppo, half of which is considered to be under the control of anti-government rebel groups. The same region has also been inundated with terrorist groups, such as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL), Ahrar al-Sham, and Al-Nusra Front, which are all being targeted by Russian as well as US-led air campaigns.<\/p>\n

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Russian PM warns US, Saudis against starting \u2018permanent war\u2019 with ground intervention in Syria\u00a0 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev \u00a9 Ekaterina Shtukina \/ Sputnik Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev told German media that sending foreign troops into Syria could unleash \u201cyet another war on Earth.\u201d The warning follows increasingly aggressive statements made by Saudi Arabia and […]<\/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":[1607,2929,2107,1239,446,447,8114,694,701,776,818],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-aleppo","tag-bashar-assad","tag-dmitry-medvedev","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","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=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/17709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}