US Prepared to Hold Joint Operations With Russia in Syria - WaPo - per Tillerson

[Leghorn21]

The Trump administration is prepared to consider joint stability operations with Russia in Syria, including no-fly zones, cease-fire observers and coordinated deliveries of humanitarian aid, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said late Wednesday.

In a statement issued as he departed for Europe, where he will join President Trump in Germany on Thursday, Tillerson said that the United States and Russia have successfully cooperated in establishing deconfliction areas in Syria to avoid contact between their air operations.

Trump plans to meet Friday with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin outside a Group of 20 summit that both are attending in Hamburg. Tillerson’s statement appeared designed to set an agenda for that meeting, framing the discussion in ways that the White House has declined to do in ­public.

more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/us-prepared-to-hold-joint-operations-with-russia-in-syria-tillerson-says/2017/07/05/67354c10-61e9-11e7-8adc-fea80e32bf47_story.html

[MedusaX]

1. Well there it is...Syria will be the reason *45 uses to lift all sanctions.

[Leghorn21]

2. Yup. I was astonished to read this, X, but yet...I know I shouldn't be. Just - UNH. n/t

[flamingdem]

3. It's nuts, Russia supports Assad no matter what

and our strategic interests are obviously not the same as theirs in the Middle East. This should be making people shiver.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Headline should be "US prepared to prop up Assad regime in policy reversal" (n/t)