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PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID CONFLICT IN SYRIA IS NOT SOME SUPERPOWER CHESSBOARD CONTEST
NOT A PROXY WAR BETWEEN USA & RUSSIA
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President Barck Obama spoke at the press conference he gave in Washington Friday. These are also Barack Obama's first remarks on his meeting with Vladimir Putin in New York last Monday. Coming also on the third day of Russian air strikes on Islamic State positions in Syria. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday that Russian warplanes had carried out fourteen sorties in Syria and delivered six strikes against Islamic State targets.
'We are not going to make Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia. This is not some superpower chessboard contest'. Also, Barack Obama said that Syria's civil war doesn't involve the United States and admitted elements of his strategy had failed. A plan to train and equip opposition forces, which resulted in only a handful of trainees 'did not work the way it was supposed to'.
Xinhua reported from Moscow Friday that the Obama-Putin meeting might have even given 'a green light' to the Russian airstrikes in Syria. It said 'In spite of distinct disputes on such issues as the Ukraine crisis and the Syrian conflict, the two countries (US and Russia) managed to coordinate, sending a positive signal regarding the improvement of bilateral relations and their readiness to cooperate more.'
Barack Obama admitted about the US' limitations in getting into any military involvement in Syria. For one thing, he is not sure the U.S. has the 'ressources and the capacity to make a serious impact.' He also said 'We will find ourselves either doing a little bit and not making a difference, and losing credibility that way, or finding ourselves drawn in deeper and deeper into a situation that we can't sustain.'
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