“Whoever is going to be elected in November is going to be tested fairly quickly by circumstances which he or she would not necessarily have chosen. [He/she] will be tested by Vladimir Putin, will be tested by the Israelis, will be tested by the Iranians, will be tested by the Chinese because they will need to know whether what happened in 2013 – when Obama disregarded his red line – whether that was an Obama problem or whether that was an America problem.”
“Until August 2013 Syria could have been resolved by the conjunction of the moderate rebellion and the West and after August 2013 it became in effect a game in which Russia decides what the pace is and what the outcome may become. This is a major geopolitical, geostrategic own goal which Obama committed on that particular day in August 2013.”
https://www.iiss.org/en/expert%20commentary/blogsections/2016-c3cf/march-0c14/foreign-policy-under-americas-next-president-dd8b
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