When I saw the Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo and Donald Trump, I was perplexed by what I had just bared witness to. It's not every day that you get to sit on the precipice of world war, and rarely do you get to see an interview as bizarre as this one. First, go watch the exchange and then come back for proper analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSz8GM5hvM
Well that was awkward. Very clear differences were evident as Russia's Lavrov and USA's Tillerson parroted each other's national perspectives in their opening statements:
Lavrov began with a statement:
Amid attempts to "clarify areas of sharp difference," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted the Trump administration’s "ambiguous and contradictory" foreign policy at the start of talks with Tillerson in Moscow Wednesday calling the demand for the Kremlin to abandon Assad "absurd." Furthermore, he warned Tillerson that Russia "believes it’s fundamentally important not to let these actions happen again."
Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
Paul Craig Roberts
The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary. It is not only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who rely on the war propaganda machine that poses as a media. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39573526
Trust between Russia and the US has collapsed under the Trump administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday, as Moscow delivered an unusually frigid if not hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria, shortly after Putin said the recent chemical attack was a staged "false flag" and predicted that more are coming, while at the same time the US accused Russia of a gas attack "cover up."