New York Times: Putin’s dangerous obsession
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the State Council on developing the construction sector at the Kremlin on May 17.
The United States and Russia are now proposing to drop food and other emergency aid from the air if President Bashar al-Assad of Syria does not allow trucks to deliver supplies to his besieged cities. Airdrops are a risky and desperate move — costly, hard to deliver accurately and, if poorly targeted, a threat to kill or injure the people they are supposed to help.
