“Russia is insistent that U.S. measures to target militants in Syria lack authority without buy-in from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — a point Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon Tuesday.”
What part of the headline is “misleading and manipulative” given this content?
The part when they say ‘against ISIS’. Legally, it is a strike against a sovereign state and this exact administration did anything it could to weaken efforts of said state (and destroying this state is a major ISIS objective) in this department. Obama himself promised ISIS weapons, US ambassador to Libya died running these weapon and John McCain went there to check things on the ground. Now they are bombing the very country which is under ISIS attack and it’s main opponent. If it is not an extreme form of hypocrisy bordering with schizophrenia what is it?