On April 8, after learning of the alleged Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against a civilian neighborhood, President Trump tweeted that Syrian President Bashar Assad would pay a “big price.” The last time the Syrian government so blatantly used chemical weapons, Trump ordered a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike at the base responsible for the chemical weapons attack. In the wake of the latest incident, however, many analysts have pointed out that last year’s response neither deterred Assad nor undercut his momentum against the Syrian opposition and questioned whether a new missile barrage would be any different.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/its-time-to-assassinate-assad
With migration, Russian aggressiveness and Brexit, the European Union is taking the western Balkans seriously again. But membership in the bloc? Not so fast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/world/europe/european-union-balkans.html
https://carnegie.ru/commentary/76025
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/04/10/5acb0b979a79479970eef7c6
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/04/10/5aca14bf9a7947edf7eef7b0