leave it therell and got a comment from leon aron.uest: well, i think, when you asked me, peter, earlier, why westernleaders of major democracies absent, serious one of the issues -- syria is one of the issues. it is obligated, because on one hand -- it is complicated, because on one hand russia allied itself temporarily with united states on the issue of extraction of chemical arms from syria. but whatever goals the obama administration have with respect to that, the russian goal was simple. they could care less about this chemical weapons. their goal was to protect the syrian regime. it is a long story why, but one credosissues, one of the of putin is you do not allow change of any authoritarian especially if the west once the strange. -- this has been an overarching sort of strategy and goal in putin's foreign policy from the beginning, to stand up to the united states. essentially in many respects save in that instance the regime and they are no longer using, at least i hope, the chemical weapons, although they have not surrender

leave it therell and got a comment from leon aron. guest: well, i think, when you asked me, peter, earlier, why westernleaders of major democracies absent, serious one of the issues -- syria is one of the issues. it is obligated, because on one hand -- it is complicated, because on one hand russia allied itself temporarily with united states on the issue of extraction of chemical arms from syria. but whatever goals the obama administration have with respect to that, the russian goal was simple. they could care less about this chemical weapons. their goal was to protect the syrian regime. it is a long story why, but one credosissues, one of the of putin is you do not allow change of any authoritarian especially if the west once the strange. -- this has been an overarching sort of strategy and goal in putin's foreign policy from the beginning, to stand up to the united states. essentially in many respects save in that instance the regime and they are no longer using, at least i hope, the chemical weapons, although they have not surrende

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