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Josh Meyer
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Mission Accomplished! Except that there IS no U.S. victory, Islamic State is a threat and...worst of all, by far, Russia, Iran & Hezbollah propped up Assad to control hugely strategic Middle East territory, incl Tartus deep-water port and game-changing access to the Mediterranean
This is also huge, if true, and not at all surprising given the Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis in LatAm: Venezuela Agreed To Let Russia Set Up A Bomber Outpost bit.ly/2VknIsy
Lots of blame to go around for that, esp. @POTUS44. More on that here: The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook - U.S. task force targeting its billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into desire for Iran nuclear deal politi.co/2CM5NSt @politico
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Josh Meyer
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Not entirely true. Here's one:
politico.com/story/2018/07/…
And another: politico.com/interactives/2…
And one more for the hell of it: politico.com/story/2017/04/…
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Josh Meyer
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For more than seven years, @SenJohnMcCain and Vladimir Kara-Murz aka @vkaramurza had each other’s backs as each criticized Putin and what they saw as his autocratic tendencies in Russia. /1
Last April, a mutual friend brought Kara-Murza a personal message from McCain. The senator had been diagnosed nine months earlier with an aggressive form of brain tumor known as a glioblastoma and wanted the young Russian to be a pallbearer at his funeral. Would he agree? /2
“I was speechless and heartbroken, close to tears at that moment,” Kara-Murza told POLITICO today. “I said yes, of course, and that it would be the most heartbreaking honor that anyone could think of.” /3
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Josh Meyer
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“She had tickets for stuff there,” the source added. “Movie nights, things like that.” Accused Russian agent met with suspected Kremlin spy who headed Russian "cultural center" in DC that's been a suspected Kremlin spy hub for many years. @POLITICO politi.co/2veJzFw
The state-run Russian Cultural Center in DC and parent org Rossotrudnichestvo also have come up in two separate ways in the Trump-Russia probes by Congress & Special Counsel Robert Mueller, including re: Michael Cohen's alleged mtg with Kremlin spooks in Prague (which he denies)
Mueller also has probed the Russian Cultural Center (aka Centre) as part of a reportedly broad inquiry into millions of dollars in payments involving the Russian embassy, former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak & several Moscow businessmen linked to Putin politi.co/2veJzFw
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- UNSC must demand full access to S #Syria; for aid, monitoring etc.

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