Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
in the Arab country.
Quoting several administration officials, CNN reported Thursday that no ambiguity remains about Russia's strategy in Syria. According to the report, President Barack Obama
I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something...
's administration assessment is that Russia is seeking to take over the airspace in the region and be the agenda-setting force on the ground.
"The Russians can't be stupid," said a senior administration official. "This is going to be wildly expensive. And they can't hold out long."
"They know in the end there is no future for the guy (Assad) because the whole reason they had to come in is because Assad and his forces were extremely vulnerable," said the official.
The official who spoke on condition of anonymity called on Russians "to come to their senses, stabilize the situation and then we can agree on the Assad piece."
Russia launched
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
murderous Moslems near the city of Homs on Wednesday after US refused to comply with Moscow's demand to take its warplanes out of Syria.
Another official, however, described Russia
CNN also quoted an unnamed official as saying that Washington has no plans to cede Russia any ground. He said it appears that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...made a dramatic chess move that the Russians have not thought through.
On Thursday, the administration launched talks through video teleconference with Moscow military officials.