Thursday, October 05, 2017

Our Friends the Russians

Russia is continuing its efforts to weaken the already poorly designed Iran nuclear deal.

Thanks Russia!

Section T of the Iran nuclear deal, which is also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), prohibits activities related to “design and development” of a nuclear weapon.

[Yukiya Amano, the IAEA Director General,] told Reuters that the Russians don’t believe the IAEA has a mandate for that particular section of the agreement.

And this isn't a recent Russian thing. Russia was running interference for Iran back in 2016.

Recall too that our government was foolish enough to thank Russia for their "help" in getting Iran to accept our terms of nuclear surrender agree to the Iran nuclear deal.

Have a super sparkly day.

UPDATE: Thanks Russia!

Russia’s Ministry of Defense is accusing the U.S. of being the last big hurdle in the way of destroying the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria, after repeatedly alleging Washington is shielding the group it claims to be fighting.

The Russians lie with such casual ease that I wonder if they are capable of telling the truth.

America has taken the lead in fighting ISIL while Assad and his allies went primarily after other rebels. Indeed, Assad encouraged the jihadis to weaken the opposition by making his strongest enemies seem worse than him.

Now Russia is leaping into the end game in eastern Syria to exploit the victories we've helped Kurds and Arabs achieve.