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Baltics, a ukraine which a proxy war and syria, which we are now seeing there is no military resolution to syria. but let me just say something which may sound heretical. but it is neither pro trump nor pro putin. and i am neither. i reported from moscow for more than 30 years. to say that it is in the united states national security interests to have a working partnership with russia on nuclear issues, on resolving the syria conflict -- >> anything slightly discordant until this era of trump wh...

>> katrina, what have we learned today about the trump posture toward nato and the trump posture towards syria? what is tomorrow or in two weeks from now or two months from now in both of those cases? >> very tough to tell. you know, wesley clark understands that at the end of the cold war, the first cold war, think tanks around washington -- >> are you saying were now in the second cold war? >> we are. but the think tanks had debates about what is natos mission now. i think its important to rem...

The syrian regime? >> reporter: first of all, you are asking me there are two sets of reactions in the region. because what syria has become be essentially is a proxy war between two main blocs, the iran-hezbollah, the group here in lebanon, russia against those sunni countries like turkey and saudi arabia and others those are the rebel groups more supported by those countries opinion as for the expectations, this is a one off essentially is the question or is this opening the door to wider mili...

I spoke to a isis defect recently who told me in hama right now, rebels led by the former outfit known as al nusra are waging a massive campaign to push back against the regime. this defector told me anyone and everyone is lining up to receive weapons and ammunition, no questions asked. if youre ready to fight assad, have at it. >> what has changed? >> the u.s. and cia have cut off the salaries. theyve given up on this whole proxy war. because there are no foreign agendas, no geo political compl...

You have war by problemsies and now war by proxys 18 russia and its allies and the united states with its allies. the celebration in the occupation about this president donald trump muscular approach in contrast to barack obama portrayed as a weak president. now donald trump has haen taken on a tough position. hezbollah. if there is no strategy on the part of donald trump, if there is no road map, no political engagement to resolve the blood shed that has been taking place in syria for the past ...

Isis, for example, has been supported by some of their key gulf allies, and after the libyan conflict, quite a lot of arms went into that country to oppose the assad regime. >> what about the roam of regional powers? you mentioned regional powers. obviously the important ones are turkey, iran and saudi arabia. so you have those three, they have been essentially fighting a proxy war pretty much on syrian territory at the expense of syrian civilians. there too needs to be a change? >> absolutely. ...

Thank you. bringing in the panel. clurissa, lets start with you. just since this attack 24 hours ago have you seen or heard talk of kind of the shift in the balance of power or any kind of change on perceptions in the balance of power the. >> well, i think, anderson, youre not going to really see a major shift on the battlefield in terms of this is unlikely to really reign in the winning streak that the regime of bashar al assad has been on. but where you might see a bit of shift in balance is i...

Lets bring in the panel, fareed zakaria, mark hertling and c and clarissa ward. have you seen or heard talk of a shift in the balance of power or any kind of change on perceptions of the balance of power? >> well, i think, anderson, you are not going to see a shift on the battlefield in terms of this is unlikely to really reign in the winning streak that the regime of assad has been on. but where you might see a bit of shift in balance is in this larger proxy war. for a long time now, the u.s. h...

Iran has thousands of fighters. russia has some of the most advanced anti-missile forces inside syria. so the reality is unless theres engagement with russia and regional players turkey and iran youll have more proxy war and more escalation in the next few weeks and next few months inside syria. >> i want to ask you one question thats come up again and again and again about this air strike. many people and you see it on social media, even in every day conversations if president obama had only do...

The conclusion that our objectives have changed with respect to that and were going to work to make sure the assad regime is going, which is actually big news for this administration. >> so, big picture perspective here, jack, when we talked about the syrian rebel group that was applauding this and saying this was great and supporting the u.s. strike, a lot of the problem in syria is there are a number of rebel-held groups. theres not a cohesive unit. so choosing with whom the united states want...