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Old 13th Apr 2018, 07:37
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I can pick out two emerging threads of Russian cyber/diplomatic efforts over Syria at the moment.

The first is to bluster and threaten retribution against the UK if an attack takes place at all. This is perhaps because they think the UK can be peeled away from cooperating with France and the USA. Note that Russian cruise missiles could just as easily hit French bases in Jordan and the Gulf - and indeed France itself, as well as numerous US land and sea assets.

The second is a growing set of anonymous reports of US/Russian negotiations on any attack being against an agreed list of vacated bases and headquarters - Potemkin villages if you will - which would allow Russia to claim a victory after an attack by claiming it was merely a sham.
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