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‘Stop Trying To Settle Scores Through Geopolitics’
Feb. 26 , 2021 (EIRNS)—The comments from Moscow this morning took the high ground of principle, in responding to the U.S. late-Feb. 25 bombing of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria, which the U.S. described as a ‘proportional’ retaliation for terrorist hits on U.S. forces in Iraq last week, accusing them as having come from Iran-sponsored militia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the United States should, “Stop trying to settle scores through geopolitics.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that U.S. military-to-military authorities gave Russia advance notice of a bare few minutes before the strike.