The
latest important interpretation from Stephen Cohen and John
Batchelor.
Tales
of the New Cold War: Options on the Syria Table
Stephen
F. Cohen, NYU, Princeton University, EastWestAccord.com
To
listen to podcast GO HERE
“The
US has cut off contacts with Russia on a Syrian truce, giving up
hopes of restoring a ceasefire, as a Russian-Syrian aerial bombing
campaign intensified its focus on destroying hospitals in rebel-held
areas.
Washington
also pulled out military personnel who had been dispatched to work
with their Russian counterparts to mount joint bombing operations
against Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS, formerly Nusra
Front) extremist groups.
A
few hours earlier, Moscow declared military contacts with the US had
also stopped and Vladimir Putin suspended a six-year agreement with
Washington on the reduction of military stocks of plutonium, as the
bitter differences over Syria and Ukraine continued to drive a
downward spiral in the US-Russian relationship…”
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U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Victoria Nuland will join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in
Brussels, Belgium on October 4, where he will deliver a speech hosted
by the German Marshall Fund on transatlantic relations.
She
will then travel to Moscow, Russia, to meet with senior Russian
government officials to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine and
next steps to implement the Minsk agreements in support of the
Normandy countries and the Trilateral Contact
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