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"You pick and choose your battles and when we're looking at this, it's about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters.
Your beloved Russia Insider often plays appalling practical jokes on its own readers. This is not one of them.
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is a human embarrassment, and it's time for him to go.
This has been clear for many, many years. There were always obvious signs, but for us the final straw was when Medvedev chastised Putin for opposing NATO's destruction of Libya ("it is absolutely inexcusable to use expressions that, in effect, lead to a clash of civilizations -- such as 'crusades,' and so on. That is unacceptable") and followed up with a regurgitated NATO press release: "All that is now happening in Libya is the result of the appalling behavior of the Libyan leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
Yeah, this guy's a jerk.