Critics of the Trump administration insist that the series of events around the attack in Syria had been meant to distract from the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. On Syria, Tillerson delivered what sounded much like an ultimatum to the Russians on Tuesday while talking to reporters at a Group of 7 meeting in Italy. But Putin and his acolytes in the Russian government see the situation very differently. They regard their military intervention in Syria, which the Obama administration did not see coming, as a tactical success. “It is not clear what they will do in Syria and not only there,” she said on Dozhd, Russia’s independent television network.

Source: National Post April 12, 2017 16:52 UTC