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April 18th, 2024

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Obama's back-footed response to Putin's embrace of Syria

Confusion reigns inside the Obama administration regarding Russia's military campaign to bolster President Bashar Assad's endangered Syrian regime. Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention clearly caught President Obama flat-footed, and so far there is no sign Mr. Obama knows how to respond. His public defensiveness reinforces the impression of a man whose worldview is collapsing around him.…

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