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Maybe Putin’s Telling the Truth About Winning Syria
TURNAROUND ARTIST
Only suckers take the Russian president’s word at face value, but it’s hard to deny his intervention likely saved Bashar al-Assad—and that was always the goal.
Michael Weiss
Contributing Editor
Published
Mar. 15 2016
12:01AM EDT
Reuters
Michael Weiss
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