Russia says ready to liaise with US coalition on Syria strikes
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Published: 09.30.15, 17:45 / Israel News
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Russia is ready to open “standing channels of communication” with the U.S.-led coalition bombing Islamic State militants in Syria in a bid to boost the fight against “terrorist groups,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Russia said earlier on Wednesday it had launched air strikes against Islamic State militants.
“We have informed the authorities of the United States and other members of the coalition created by the Americans and are ready to forge standing channels of communication to ensure the maximum effective fight against the terrorist groups,” Lavrov told the United Nations Security Council.
Problem for Obama and US policy is that ISIS is a direct offspring of them both. By leaving Iraq to fend for itself, backing and arming Sunni “freedom fighters” in Syria, and generally leaving the minority communities in both countries and North Africa to the demonic brutality of the same the result has been both an epic catastrophe and a vacuum for Russia to fill. And one cannot blame Putin for accepting the invitation. Like the scorpion on the back of the frog, it’s his nature.