During a Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday, President Trump said he would not send ground troops into Syria despite dictator Bashar Assad's continued lethal bombardments.
Vladimir Putin is smarter than Donald Trump.
The secretary of defense said that it was not a "not a harbinger of change in our military campaign", and that the USA had to make a "very, very clear statement" that "chemical weapons not be used".
The Moscow news conference came after Mr Putin met Mr Tillerson for the first time since Mr Trump took office. The Kremlin declined to say if Putin would meet Tillerson.
Only weeks ago, it appeared that Mr Trump, who praised Mr Putin throughout the USA election campaign, was poised for a potentially historic rapprochement with Russian Federation.
Though such comments hint at a more activist USA foreign policy focused on preventing humanitarian atrocities, Trump's administration has generally downplayed human rights concerns while promoting an "America First" strategy de-emphasizing the concerns of foreign nations.
In his opinion, Russian Federation will not change its viewpoint on the Syrian conflict and will continue striving to get the regime and the opposition to find common ground during talks in Geneva and Astana, although after the latest escalation it will be very hard.
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow would demand a United Nations investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria as it expected new provocations with toxic agents in the war-torn Middle East country.
It was the eighth time during Syria's civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad's government. Putin said that either gas belonging to the rebels was released when it was hit by a Syrian strike on a rebel arms dump, or the rebels faked the incident to discredit Assad.
One of Lavrov's deputies was even more undiplomatic. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Russian Federation, and Assad ally Iran, must be involved in any peace process to end Syria's six-year civil war. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed in Moscow on Tuesday after the G7 meetings. The U.S. and Britain say there is little doubt Assad's forces are culpable. He quickly responded by ordering a cruise missile strike on the Syrian air base from which the chemical attack was allegedly launched. "There is a low level of trust between our two countries". A former oil executive with good relationships in Russian Federation, he appeared to suggest Moscow had a strategic opportunity here: to fix strained relationships with other world powers.
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Giving Tillerson a chilly reception, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia was trying to understand the "real intentions" of the Trump administration. So it's an indication that there's not friendship between the two sides, but I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad thing for the future of the relationship.
"Is that a long term alliance that serves Russia's interests?"
"We have seen it all already", Putin said.
But once the line is reconnected, the communications between Russian and USA officials will remain private, Col. John Dorrian, the top US spokesman in Iraq, said Wednesday.
"Are we insisting on it? No".
"I think that they knew, yes", Haley said.
The Wall Street Journal cited Trump as saying that Assad's use of chemical weapons again would elicit another military response, but he also said he would not intervene in depth in the conflict.
Stopping just short of accusing Russian Federation of complicity with the sarin gas attack against civilians April 4, Trump said it's "certainly possible" that Russian Federation had advance knowledge of the use of chemical weapons by its ally.
Mr Tillerson reiterated the US position that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must eventually relinquish power in Syria, a position starkly at odds with Russian Federation. While Western intelligence agencies are relatively uniform in their conclusion that Assad was responsible for the attack, Putin countered by reminding the world that in 2003, intelligence agencies were also supposedly certain chemical weapons were to be found in Iraq, and look what happened there.
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