Pepe Escobar — Eagle-meets-Bear and the Syria tug-of-war

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Trump and Putin are likely to discuss the tricky situation in southern Syria when they meet; while the US president says he wants US forces back home, the CIA, Pentagon and Israel may be happier to see them stay so the war-torn state remains unstable. Obama could not bring the US deep state under control. We'll see if Trump can, or wants to.Asia TimesEagle-meets-Bear and the Syria tug-of-war Pepe EscobarSee alsoRussia: Other Points of ViewRUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 5 JULY 2018 Patrick ArmstrongAlso by ArmstrongStrategic Culture FoundationPsychoanalysing NATO: ProjectionAlsoRussian and Eurasian PoliticsTrump-Putin Summit Gordon M. Hahn, analyst and Advisory Board member at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation, member of the Executive Advisory Board at the American Institute of Geostrategy,

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