[deveac]

He certainly does know his audience, and he certainly failed to mention a certain key foreign power supplying weapons to one of the sides...

>This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Yes this is essentially a civil war between the current regime and a multifaceted opposition. Putin is heavily arming one of those sides.

[jtc331]

And the United States (covertly) is heavily arming the other.

[deveac]

Correct, as Putin pointed out in the piece (in the section I quoted above).

The point I was making was that this a political play by an invested actor, not the passionate reasoned plea it was trying to come across as. That was quite an omission he made there, though it made sense rhetorically for his purpose. The poster above found him/herself "not only nodding along but inspired" by they man who is responsible for the weapons that have killed tens of thousands in this conflict so far.

[foobarqux]

I assume you have the same criticism of Obama's address?

[DominikR]

Not covertly anymore:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-be...