The passenger denied boarding on UA Flight 3411 has taken the standard actions in preparation for filing a law suit against United Airlines by calling for a preservation of every imaginable bit of information that might be available from the airline, the FAA, and airport authority including surveillance videos, cockpit voice recordings, passenger and crew lists, incident reports and other items. David Dao Likely to File Suit Against United Airlines Any broader American initiative to force regime change in Syria diminishes Russia’s role in the conflict, endangers their warm-water port interests and would be seen as a personal defeat for Putin.ĭr. Indeed Putin would like to see it as an isolated event. Our limited strike can be looked at as a limited – one-off event or a fundamental change in US strategy in the Middle East. We have seen over the last few years Iran create formidable forces of Shia militias and fighters spring up across the Arab world, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Pakistan and Afghanistan, all trained by and directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards with help from Russia. Over the years, the US attempts to isolate Iran have allowed ever increasing military and intelligence ties between Russia and Iran. As long as the largely Sunni jihadis are waging war on Assad, the threat to Russian territories is reduced. And likewise sees all of those aligned with Assad’s opposition/removal as obstacles to Putin’s containment strategy, along with the warm water port. His strategy of containment hinges on Assad staying in power. Putin would likely point to the large number of Chechen jihadist fighting in Syria as proof. Additionally Putin shares concerns with Assad in containing Islamic extremism, lest it spread to Russian Muslim regions. The Fireball opinion is the latter is the more important to Putin. I don’t believe Putin will see any need to change his long term strategies of one continued and expanded access to a warm water port on the Mediterranean they now have at Russian naval base in Tartus and two increasing Russia’s great-power status. Assad and his allies continue to gain ground in Idlib province and to make gains in the critical corridor between Damascus and the Mediterranean Sea. The Trump administration has accused Moscow of attempting to help cover up Assad’s use of chemical weapons. Despite US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s and Tillerson’s assertions Moscow was complicit in the alleged nerve gas attack, or inept at fulfilling their earlier international promise to remove these chemical weapons from Syrian hands, the balance of power remains about the same. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s mission to Moscow is not likely to yield substantive changes in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support of Bashar al-Assad and the current Syrian regime.
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Try it out! I’ve done an update to this post and you should have receive your email notification of a new post on April 14.įOD Regarding Tillerson’s Mission to Moscow