US-led air strikes will embolden Damascus and Moscow
The air strikes on chemical facilities are symbolic politics, with all key actors playing to domestic audiences
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- US policy may not change
- European calculations
- Russia's war talk dissipates
- Damascus emboldened, not cowed
- Regional dimension
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