Obama Says Russian Federation Faces Strategic Choice as Assad Can’t Stay

Rejecting the notion of an existential threat, Obama said IS “can’t beat us on the battlefield, so they try to terrorize us into being afraid”. “We need to show global solidarity to address the common enemy of ISIL, Daesh, a few other extremists and terrorist groups”, said Ban at the 27th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sunday. Having secured a veto-proof majority in the House, supporters are now hoping for a repeat in the Senate, while Obama works to shift the conversation to milder visa waiver changes that wouldn’t affect Syrian refugees. This explains the ongoing U.S.-Russia war, even after the end of communism, the war that was begun by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990 just as the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact were ending, and the United States and its military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organisation continued and has since expanded right up to Russia’s very borders – the equivalent of Russia’s Warsaw Pact having absorbed Mexico or Canada and placed nuclear missiles right on America’s own border. Obama said it was not clear whether Putin could work effectively with the U.S.-led coalition.

“He needs to go after the people who killed Russian citizens”, he said of Putin. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the West would “annihilate Islamic State worldwide”.

The Syrian National Coalition is the largest wing of the Syrian opposition, which has been fighting against the regime after March 2011. Hollande then goes to Russian Federation for similar talks with Putin.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday had a 90-minute visit with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Within six months, the negotiations are to establish a “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian” transitional government that would set a schedule for drafting a new constitution and holding a free and fair U.N.-supervised election within 18 months.

USA lawmakers are pushing legislation to tighten screening requirements for Syrian refugees; a few Republican presidential candidates want to halt their entry. In Turkey and the Philippines last week, Obama pushed back on those proposals as un-American, drawing criticism from a few who said he failed to grasp Americans’ post-Paris fears.

The president has since softened his tone.

“Our nation was horrified, but it’s not going to be terrorized”, President George W. Bush declared five days after those attacks. “Be assured that we stand with you against this new evil that blasphemes against the name of Islam”.

Americans also are split on the topic of Syrian refugees while Obama has said the US will let 10,000 into the country by next year, a move many governors across the country have objected to.