Crossfire War=Rapid Fire News-West Asia Theatre: Russia-U.S. Defense Secretaries in Telephone Summit

Moscow: "The situation in the Middle East region was discussed." Xinhua reports that was the terse announcement after Russia Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had a telephone summit with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. I suspect this is a follow up to a Xinhua report two years ago of the meeting in Helsinki between the Russia-U.S. Military Chiefs of Staff. The Paris based Allied alliance assigned Russia the role of maintaining close contacts with Iran in order to provide Allied Air Forces with precise target information. Moscow has long been financed by industrial concerns in the West the main purchasers of Russia's eleven time zones of resources (both governments used the Cold War as an excuse to continue experimenting).