Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik
On December 21, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said that the U.S. decision to withdraw its troops from Syria is “a step in the right direction.”
However, the Russian minister questioned the seriousness of the U.S. decision, especially that no clear plan for the withdrawal has been presented so far.
“It is necessary to wait for what will happen after this announcement. As I know, there are many questions within the United States about this,” Lavrov said during a joint press conference with his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad al-Maliki, in Moscow, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
A day earlier, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin welcomed the U.S. decision. However, he said that Russian didn’t see any signs yet of the withdrawal of U.S. troops and warned from an Afghanistan-like scenario.
“How long has the United States been in Afghanistan? Seventeen years? And almost every year they say they’re pulling out their troops.” Putin added, according to the New York Times.
Russia’s careful stand on the U.S. decision is legitimate as the current Trump administration has a track record of not respecting its own commitments.
That was the old US system, Obama and McCains system, the old system that stipulated all men should start wearing dresses and putting on lipstick, but this is not the old system this is a new system and administration, and just like Putin, Trump doesn’t want to force men to wear dresses and lipstick.
I was not expecting to read your comment, but I definitely agree with it. :-)
Trump’s plans to withdraw US forces from Syria is short on details because the secretary of defense and Pentagon did not agree with it and as a result Mattis was let go, and the Pentagon has to designate plans for the withdrawal…..instead of circumventing and not supporting executive orders as they did repeatedly during the Obama administration, exasperating the Russians when they claimed US was not agreement capable.
At this point, I really don’t care if it happens or not. It’s worth it just to see the U.S. MSM in absolute hysterics! F’king zidiots…
Cable newz talking heads: “…certain doom for mankind resulting from Trump’s troop withdrawal.” Assorted jihadis dropping out of the sky, swimming out of the ocean and crawling out from under every rock to kill all Americans! Collapse of the entire Middle East as it burst into flames, breaks off the earth and launches itself into the sun! No more free shipping from Amazon!
Now who might be telegraphing this paranoia to the US MSM? No, it’s not the island nations of Wallis or Futuna, but I’m keeping an eye on those sneaky bastards…
“OK, this one looks done. Slice it up, then call CNN and tell them the apocalypse is starting tomorrow and all guns should be confiscated.” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a3ed5af716f0cc09a14da52092340dce67922387ed47a965674ba85437ec536e.png
I had once a very stupid dog. Everyday he was so excited to see me that he barked frantically, tried to licked my face and so on, I told him not to do so but without success. Then I started punishing him for that , but he did it again and again. I should nikcnamed him Lavrov. He is the very same person as that stupid dog of mine. He just must playing nice with western “partners” and try to please them in any circumstances.
Blocked, too stupid to read.
lol …….. okay there sparky.