Move over BRICS, here comes FUKUS

There’s a hot new acronym in international affairs, courtesy of our friends at Pravda: The United States of America has joined its FUKUS Axis partners France and the UK (together with wannabe Ottoman imperialist Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council) in recognising the Syrian opposition as the only "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people. Those ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

There's a hot new acronym in international affairs, courtesy of our friends at Pravda:

There’s a hot new acronym in international affairs, courtesy of our friends at Pravda:

The United States of America has joined its FUKUS Axis partners France and the UK (together with wannabe Ottoman imperialist Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council) in recognising the Syrian opposition as the only "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.

Those are going to be fun summits.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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