{"id":68526,"date":"2017-03-13T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68526"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:26:52","slug":"are-the-united-states-and-russia-cooperating-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68526","title":{"rendered":"Are the United States and Russia Cooperating in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Costa, CA<br \/>\nMarch 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>There is some reason to believe that the US and Russia are cooperating<br \/>\nin Syria. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=70917\">http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=70917<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The situation is very complicated&#8230;&#8230;.and very fluid. But recent reports<br \/>\nsuggest that, despite outward appearances, the two super powers are<br \/>\nworking together to fight ISIS\/Daesh.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/11\/trump-cuts-russia-out-of-terror-partnership\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/03\/11\/trump-cuts-russia-out-of-terror-partnership\/<\/a><br \/>\n(see last 3 paragraphs)<\/p>\n<p>More than deconflicting the dangerous situation there, these reports imply<br \/>\nthat President Trump has instructed his top military leaders to actively<br \/>\nwork with their Russian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is forced to act quietly and in an understated way because of<br \/>\nthe many accusations that he is a &#8220;Putin puppet&#8221; who is beholden to<br \/>\nthe Russian leader for his help in defeating Hillary Clinton during the<br \/>\n2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>That claim never had\u00a0substantial evidence backing it and is now<br \/>\nunder even greater risk of being rejected because the Vault 7 revelations<br \/>\nfrom WikiLeaks show the CIA had the ability to disguise hacking to make<br \/>\nit look like it came from another country or source.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has added to the confusion following its invasion of Syrian territory<br \/>\nlast year because of its shifting alliances with its NATO partners and Putin. Now<br \/>\nErdogan has stepped up and accused the West of arming ISIS in another move<br \/>\nthat muddies the waters even more: <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=165112\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=165112<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to follow these rapidly changing developments. Perhaps greater clarity<br \/>\nwill be achieved following the upcoming meeting in Washington of the 68 member<br \/>\nanti-ISIS coalition even though Russia and Iran have not been invited.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that the region continues to roil with more reliance on military<br \/>\nactivity in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68425\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68425<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Costa, CA March 12, 2017 by Rich Scheck There is some reason to believe that the US and Russia are cooperating in Syria. http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=70917 The situation is very complicated&#8230;&#8230;.and very fluid. But recent reports suggest that, despite outward appearances, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}