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Saudi arabians have a lot of proxies in the middle east. we should be very careful to think immediately saudi arabia has our best interests at heart. that is a fallacy, people call them a frenemy, i call them close to an enemy. they do not have our best interests at heart. the iranians are not our friends either, we should notified a saudi arabian proxy war. >> that is exactly right. >> that is a religious conflict. mark: are they building icbms for saudi arabia? iran? do they want nuclear warhe...

Antagonizing our nato ally, turkey, bordering syria on the north. turkey views the kurds as a threat. the turks sent in troops to seize turkish-controlledter -- controlled territory. this is the complexity of syria. it is not a random country in which there is a civil war. this is why a lot of people describe syria as being a proxy war. its got israel. its got turkey. its got the united states. its got russia. >> which is why it is -- to simply make the argument, syria is not our country, not ou...

Will come to realize this is really a short-term exercise in political symbolism overriding perhaps the humanitarian dimension, although that of course is important. these things are extremely nasty. >> paul, you are a professor of peace studies, so if we could turn to that for a second and look at the main factors that are prohibiting the peace process in syria. of course its the regime of assad and perhaps a power play and backing extremism in the region, too. what do you think are the largest...

This war, and we failed. we failed for two reasons. one was because president putin believes he has to back assad no matter what, and to preconvenient regime change, he believes the united states and our allowing were seeking to achieve there. we were not trying to overthrow assad for many years and president trump is confused in whether he wants to -- but we failed in that, because he wanted to back assad. i sought your interviewed yesterday with masha, and she was right, this is a proxy war in...

Engagement, which would ultimately mean, you know, sort of engaging with russia, right, and having some sort of proxy war in syria, one can assume that assad remains in power, that russia will remain its main supporter and that essentially the sort of architecture of whats going on in syria doesnt change much. im not too worried about being dragged into a war right now just given what the allies and the united states are saying. but im also pretty confident that the status quo will pretty much b...

Deterrent framework that exists in order that the syrian regime and its patrons know that there will be a price to pay if chemical weapons are used again against innocent men, women and children. >> and the vice president at the summit went on to say that, you know, price will involve the use of military force. so, kevin, how much further potentially could the u.s. be engaged in this? >> yeah, i think thats yet to be seen. it really depends on a couple of things that happen. what are syrias resp...

Air bases within the last ten days. >> yes. >> and we also know that the united states is involved. the kurds are involved and turkeys involved. this is a proxy war going on right now. and the lack of a strategic thinking of where we want to be and how we could possibly get there is a major fault of this administration. >> what would you have had the administration do in terms of consultation with congress? obviously, there isnt a valid authorization for the use of military force. and thats goin...

Happened, sanctions happened. russia bisque ebecame a pariah. september of 15. two years later putin came to the united nations addressed the general assembly and tried the recapture that role. he proposed to president obama that russia and the united states could form an anti-isis coalition implying that all since would be forgiven. ukraine, georgia would be forgiven. they would start anew and diffy up the world again. obama snubbed him. a week later, russia started bombing syria and thats how ...

Yes, they are going to work hand in hand. we know russian troops are moving into sensitive areas like douma to poe approximate tepblly complicate the job and where the u.s. will and wont want to hit. remember, that deconflictation line will try to take territory from the kurds where im standing. it was open throughout those clashes. the russians, according to the americans officials i spoke to wont be honest about who is involved. they were killed by american fire power because they were advanci...

Its the russians, remember? the russians have the force there. the russians have the jets there. the russians have the anti-aircraft there. the russians have the defense theres. its the russians and the iranians and the syrians against the united states and saudi arabia and the 50 or so groups of moderate syrian rebels that we trained in jordan and sent over to fight in this proxy war for us. now the next salvo. what is the goal? the goal might be to stop them from doing anymore chemical attacks...