Russia’s Syria Calculus: Behind Moscow’s Plan to Avert U.S. Missile Strikes -- Simon Shuster, Time
The notion of Syria giving up its chemical weapons, or at least putting them under foreign control, has long been on the table in the consultations between Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s government and his allies in Moscow. In the course of the civil war that has been raging in Syria for more than two years, “we discussed this possibility many times from many different angles,” says Russian diplomat Andrei Klimov. But it was only in the last week that both Russia and Syria realized that it was in both of their best interests.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Impromptu or scripted, Syria plan lets Russia play the peacemaker -- Timothy Heritage and Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters
The Syria Solution: Obama Got Played by Putin and Assad -- Julia Ioffe, New Republic
Russia’s Absurd Proposal on Syria’s Weapons -- Max Boot, Commentary
Syrian Conflict Goes Back 13 Centuries -- Dmitry Chen, Bloomberg
Making Sense of Syria -- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely -- Dennis Ross, Washington Post
Obama’s dithering frustrates Israelis -- Vivian Bercovic, Toronto Star
What Pakistan’s Release of the Afghan Taliban’s No. 2 Means for Peace -- Omar Waraich, Time
Japan's Nuclear Migraine: A Never-Ending Disaster at Fukushima -- Von Marco Evers, Spiegel Online
China Embraces 'British Model', Ditching Mao for Edmund Burke -- The Telegraph
Is the Rule of Law Coming to China? -- Chun Peng, The Diplomat
How China Sees the South China Sea -- James R. Holmes, The Diplomat
Reinvention Time for Australia’s Abbott -- Bloomberg editorial
Mexico’s New Drug War: Catch and Release? -- Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker
NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry -- David Kravets and Robert McMillan, Threat Level
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