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Top general: Syria’s Assad ‘in much better shape’ thanks to Russia

By Paul Bedard
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Top general: Syria’s Assad ‘in much better shape’ thanks to Russia

In a blunt admission of the effectiveness of Russia’s intervention in the Syria civil war, America’s top general said that Moscow’s action put President Bashar Assad’s government “in much better shape.”

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a speech that the Russian air strikes “certainly were effective in propping up the Assad regime,” opposed by the United States.

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