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Putin's Puppet dancing at the end of his strings again.
And if you, like the Stable Genius, don't think ISIS is a problem because they are 7000 miles away, so was Osama Bin Laden.
As Pence and Pompeo try to rewrite history now and claim there was no green light, you should ask yourself why the US sided with Russia against 5 of our NATO allies to block this UN statement denouncing the Turkish attacks on our FORMER Kurdish allies.
EU diplomats stood alone against the US and Russia on Syria at the UN on Thursday (10 October), painting a bleak picture of transatlantic relations.
EU envoys to the UN Security Council (UNSC), from Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Poland, and the UK spoke to press in New York after the US and Russia blocked an EU-drafted UN resolution on the conflict.
The German ambassador, Jurgen Schulz, read out the EU statement anyway.
"We call upon Turkey to cease the unilateral military action," Schulz said, as the Turkish military bombarded Kurdish positions in northern Syria and Kurdish artillery fired on Turkish towns on the other side of the border.
The Turkish offensive would create "fertile ground for the resurgence of Da'esh" in a "significant threat to regional, international, and European security", Schulz added, referring to an Islamist militant group that is also known as Isis.
It would "exacerbate civilian suffering and provoke further displacements which will further increase the number of refugees," Schulz said.
The call was echoed in Paris, where French president Emmanuel Macron said Turkey was "putting millions of people at humanitarian risk", and in Rome, where Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio "condemned" Turkey's actions.
But back in New York, the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, and the Russian envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, took a different line.
The US did not ask Turkey to stop, although Craft did say, in her own press briefing, that: "Failure [by Turkey] to play by the rules, to protect vulnerable populations, failure to guarantee that Isis cannot exploit these actions to reconstitute, will have consequences".
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