if you will with the ideology of isil and the idea of acting vieolently is of great concern. it s a trend that would suggest things are increasing not decreasing. joining us to discuss from orlando, florida retired lieutenant mark hertling cnn military analyst, former commander of the u.s. army in europe and joining us from new york cnn global affairs analyst bobby goesh, the managing editor. we ll get to the cyber threats and isis recruitment in a moment. first talking to michael weis about the u.s. and russia potentially working together in some areas to fight isis. the white house press secretary josh earnest says the two countries have a strong counterterrorism cooperation. general hertling how has that been working out? hasn t been working out well lately but it could. you know i think russia is just as concerned, all the reports i m hearing, is russia is just as concerned with returning jihadsists as we are and, in
ukraine, they can t, you know, engage in any diplomatic endeavors with respect to syria or iran without russia s participation. and also the fact that kerry was laying wreaths for fallen russian soldiers in world war ii after the united states essentially boycotted victory day in russia is another sort of symbolic significant event for the kremlin here. they re saying essentially that the u.s. is suing for peace again. they realize they didn t get what they want sanctions haven t worked the fact that this took place in sochi in putin s personal residence, sochi being the location of last year s winter olympics another twist of the knife, i think. the timing i would submit is poor. today happens to be the day that the colleagues of the slain first deputy prime minister boris themsov released the report on russia s military invasion of ukraine which found 220 russian soldiers died in two battles in ukraine, one of which took place in january, february
important significant development that the secretary of state has gone to russia after a long spell. there is something to be taken away from that. i share michael s skepticism from your previous segment. you know the two countries rationally have plenty in common faced plenty of threats in common but russia occasionally will go off the reservation and not behave in a rationale fashion. we ve seen that time and time again with vladimir putin in georgia, more recently in ukraine. so it s a little hard to know what exactly they want out of this meeting. but they re going to make a big deal of the fact that the meeting is taking place at all. and make a big deal the russians will that the american secretary of state has now paid a visit to sochi, met with putin and lavrov and they will have this news conference. let me get your quick thought on what we heard from the director of the national security agency here in the united states that
this you can t address the problem of isis without getting rid of assad. we re led to believe that iran would be a sort of integral partner in foe meanting what you might call regime decapitation or transition. russia would have to work to see that forward too. what s happening in syria is interesting. the regime is losing losing badly and so is iran by the way, in northern syria, islib provis has fallen out of the regime s control, southern syria and the regime and guard corps of iran have been badly defeated. the u.s. sees this as an opportunity. aepts skeptical a nuclear deal with iran or any kind of friendly overtures with the kremlin will bring about this sort of grand ambition. but remember as you pointed out, wolf last time kerry went to moscow was for what to sue for peace in syria get russia to stop selling s-300 anti-aircraft missiles to assad and the event of that was the announcement of the geneva 2 peace protocol
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