Apenas para corroborar o que disse sobre o papel de Moscou na crise síria. Se os EUA realmente decidirem por derrubar o regime de Assad, terão que contar, no mínimo, com a simpatia russa… Porém, ao dizer que pretende consultar o Congresso, Obama poderia estar demonstrando que não tivera grandes êxitos em um contato de bastidores com o Kremlin… Será que Washington ousaria desencadear uma ação militar contra Damasco à revelia de Moscou? Sempre bom lembrar quem governa a Rússia…

US Strike on Syria Inadmissible, Even if ‘Limited’ – Moscow

 MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) – A military strike on Syria not sanctioned by the UN Security Council would be inadmissible no matter how “limited” it is, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

US President Barack Obama said earlier in the day that a potential military strike on Syria would be a “limited” operation aimed at punishing the Syrian government for achemical weapons attack it allegedly carried out last week.

“Any unilateral military sanction bypassing the UN Security Council, no matter how “limited” it is, will be a direct violation of the international law, [it will] undermine the possibility to solve the conflict in Syria by political and diplomatic means, [and] bring about a new round of confrontation and casualties,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement late on Friday. Continuar lendo →