Nutty Cortez
Dummy (D) NY
The Hill✔@thehill
Speaker Pelosi: "I also pointed out to the president I had concerns that all roads seemed to lead to Putin. The Russians have been trying to get a foothold in the Middle East unsuccessfully, and now the President has given them an opportunity."
Um, Madam Speaker?
Russia has had a naval base in Syria since 1971. They’ve been providing military support in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad government since 2015, when they came in after Barack Obama’s many “red line” threats against the Assad regime using chemical weapons amounted to nothing. The Russians proclaimed subsequently that they were making their presence permanent.
That’s not even talking about Russia’s involvement elsewhere in the Middle East such as with Iran