The presence of the Russian commandos shows just how important it is for Moscow to have Aleppo under the control of the Syrian government by time President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, when the U.S. “Russian special forces have been in Aleppo for a number of weeks, where they’ve taken on a combat role,” Ruslan Pukhov, the head of Moscow-based defense think tank CAST tells the Wall Street Journal. “The big question now is whether the United States in the next administration will continue to push Europe to hold Russia accountable - something that is currently in doubt, given President-elect Donald Trump’s open admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his selection of Russia-friendly Exxon Mobil boss Rex Tillerson for secretary of state.”
What about those Russia sanctions? The European Union decided in Brussels on Thursday to extend sanctions against Russia until July –sanctions that were imposed after the annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, FP’s Emily Tamkin writes. “It’s so sad, and we’re going to help people.” He said he would ask the Persian Gulf nations to put up money for the project, adding, “we’ll build and help build safe zones in Syria, so people will have a chance.” It is not clear if the PEOTUS plans to establish a no-fly zone in northern Syria, and if American aircraft would defend the area from Syrian and Russian airstrikes. “When I look at what’s going on in Syria, it’s so sad,” he told a crowd in Pennsylvania. For the first time since being elected president, Donald Trump on Thursday night pledged to create “safe zones” in Syria for civilians. “When you’re talking about a significant cyber intrusion like this, we’re talking about the highest levels of government.” “I don’t think things happen in the Russian government of this consequence without Vladimir Putin knowing about it,” Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security adviser, told MSNBC on Thursday. In his NPR interview, Obama went further than anyone in his administration has publicly on the issue, saying, “what the Russian hack had done was create more problems for the Clinton campaign than it had for the Trump campaign.” 7, the Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a remarkable joint statement expressing their confidence that “Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.”
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Obama has ordered the intelligence community to conduct a full investigation into the hacks, with a report due before the presidential inauguration on Jan. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly denied the possibility of any Russian involvement in the hacks. The DNI and FBI haven’t rallied behind that view, though both have doubled down on Russian culpability. The CIA has gone a step further, concluding that the hacks were meant to tip the election in the favor of Donald Trump. presidential election, the CIA and FBI have affirmed the view of Russian meddling, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in directing how the hacked information was used.
The Republican National Committee also said this week it was able to thwart hacking attempts during the election, and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Russian hackers targeted his campaign during the election, as well. Some of it may be explicit and publicized some of it may not be.” And we will - at a time and place of our own choosing. President Barack Obama has vowed retaliation for the Russian cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee earlier this year, telling NPR in a remarkable interview, “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections … we need to take action.
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