{"id":64826,"date":"2016-03-15T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64826"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:10:42","slug":"putin-orders-withdrawal-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64826","title":{"rendered":"Putin orders withdrawal from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to The Guardian<\/a>, The Vlad called Syrain President Bashar al-Assad yesterday and told him that he’ll be withdrawing Russian forces from the fight in Syria for whatever reason;<\/p>\n

His move was clearly designed to coincide with the start of Syrian peace talks in Geneva and will be seen as a sign that Russia believes it has done enough to protect Assad\u2019s regime from collapse.<\/p>\n

Putin said he had ordered his diplomatic staff to step up their efforts to achieve a settlement to end the civil war which has cost at least 250,000 lives and is due to enter its sixth year on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess maybe the politics of the fight were a little too much for Putin to control from Moscow. According to AFP<\/a> the White House hopes that it’s a signal that Putin is accepting to the idea that Assad can step down from Syria’s throne.<\/p>\n

Opposition groups, the United States and key European countries have called on Assad to go as part of a negotiated transition.<\/p>\n

“We have talked about how Russia’s continued military intervention to prop up the Assad regime made the efforts to reach a political transition even more difficult,” said [White House spokesman Josh Earnest].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I wouldn’t count on Russia to be too helpful in that regard. They started their military participation in September in an attempt to reinforce Assad’s position and I don’t think Putin is willing to throw that investment away. We can be reasonably sure that he wasn’t influenced by anything that the Obama\/Kerry team did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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