that is when xi can jinping was in mar-a-lago, standing next to trump. that is a message to china if you don t do anything, we will. president trump in that financial times interview said that china, we would like to have you on our side, but if not, we will act alone. and thursday night, trump acted alone. where does russia fall into this? do they have any hand to play in relations to north korea? of course they do. china and russia are basically on the same page. regardless of how we assess the limited and targeted airfield in syria, the measure of the attack is wheth it s informed by any strategic vision. if the trump administration is serious about finding a diplomatic, political solution for this blood bath, we know that assad is a war criminal. you cannot but engage russia and china. and so far it seems to me that
humiliation. so far the world awaits political clarity, what is the political road map of the trump administration. will he invest serious political capital to really help the nightmare in syria. hardly any critical, consistent ideas from the trump administration. there is confusion overseas, back at home there s also quite a bit of frustration. the missile launch did have some bipartisan support among hawkish republicans and democrats. but there were others who said this was completely illegal, that donald trump needed to get congressional approval before doing that. one of these members was senator chris murphy, a democrat on the foreign relations committee. here s what he said earlier. i don t believe the strikes were legal. if he asked the american people for a declaration of war against bashar al assad, he wouldn t get it. the amer people don t really
out. she wants to get rid of iranian influence in syria. and of course, she wants to defeat isis, a very tall order. while his secretary of state wants only to defeat isis and then engage in a political process for the syrian people to determine assad s future. well, here you have multiple, multiple agenda, very complex agenda, contradictory, incoherent, inconsistent. and even let s say that the trump administration will follow up and decide on regime change in syria, what are the tools that the trump administration has in syria to do so? russia controls the lands and the sky. iran has major investment, as well as assad and the key word, and you ll see in the next few months, escalation, escalation, escalation. what will the trump administration do? the pressure will be tremendous on the trump administration to either escalate or face
world events have taken the focus away from president trump s domestic agenda. global crises from north korea to russia to egypt and syria are now dominating the headlines. but no one is quite sure what happens next. in the wake of last week s missile attack on a syrian airfield, the trump administration appears to be sending conflicting messages about its goal in syria. we re hopeful that through this syrian process working with coalition members, working with the geneva process that we can navigate a political outcome in which the syrian people will determine bashar al assad s fate. and his legimacy. i think the question of h his crinal actions are dealt with is something that will be part of that process. no way do we see peace in that area with assad as the head of the syrian government, and we have to make sure that we re
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