KYIV, Ukraine—Thursday was a bad day for the Kremlin.
In the span of a few hours, Russia’s two foreign policy mantelpieces—its military adventures in Ukraine and Syria—were both dealt body blows.
One came from a United States cruise missile attack on a Syrian regime air base where Russian military forces were deployed. The strike was in retaliation for a deadly Syrian chemical weapons attack against civilians on Tuesday, in which the U.S. said Russia was complicit.
“I think that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin had expected anything, except the American attack on the Syrian air base,” Marcel Van Herpen, director of the Cicero Foundation, …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
