Is Putin the only world leader with a coherent Middle East strategy?
If Russia cannot persuade the US that they should work together to defeat Isil, Moscow will work with an ad hoc group, a coalition of the willing made up of Russia, Iran and Iraq.
For Russia the situation in Syria has clear parallels with the situation in Ukraine, where protestors forced the incumbent from power, and Libya, where Gaddafi was hunted down, leading to chaos and the dominance of Islamist groupings.
As far as Putin is concerned, the West’s sponsoring of anti-Assad insurgents has been primarily responsible for the situation in Syria, or as he termed it ‘external interference’ and only a renewed show of support for Assad and the Syrian state will remedy the situation.
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