{"id":21886,"date":"2016-10-01T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2016-10-01T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:36:17","slug":"the-situation-in-syria-is-very-very-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21886","title":{"rendered":"The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In case you haven\u2019t been\u00a0paying attention, the recent Syria ceasefire lasted barely\u00a0a week. While all sides engaged in\u00a0the conflict were accusing the other of violating the agreement from the beginning, it really unraveled when U.S. forces bombed Syrian government forces, killing at least 62.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0CNN<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported at the time:<\/p>\n

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Hours after US-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian troops, the US and Russian ambassadors to the United Nations chastised each other outside an emergency Security Council meeting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The strike occurred Saturday in an eastern part of Syria that is not a part of a delicate and nearly week-old ceasefire. The US military said it was targeting ISIS militants and if it hit Syrian troops, it was an accident.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Russia and Syria said the strikes prove Washington and its allies are sympathetic to ISIS.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Russian military said 62 Syrian soldiers were killed near Deir Ezzor Airport, according to state media. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 83 and said at least 120 soldiers were wounded.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A fews day after this, Syrian forces launched an attack on the city of Aleppo, and we now find ourselves in an extraordinarily dangerous situation.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

Obama administration officials have begun considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on Aleppo, including military options, as rising tensions with Moscow diminish hopes for diplomatic solutions from the Middle East to Ukraine and cyberspace, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new discussions were being held at \u201cstaff level,\u201d and have yet to produce any recommendations to President Barack Obama, who has resisted ordering military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country\u2019s multisided civil war.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous In case you haven\u2019t been\u00a0paying attention, the recent Syria ceasefire lasted barely\u00a0a week. While all sides engaged in\u00a0the conflict were accusing the other of violating the agreement from the beginning, it really unraveled when U.S. forces bombed Syrian government forces, killing at least 62. As\u00a0CNN\u00a0reported at the […]<\/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":[1607,3306,3218,145,4285,6174,522,542,694,776,821],"class_list":["post-21886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-aleppo","tag-barack-obama","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-cnn","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-middle-east","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886","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=21886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21887,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions\/21887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}