RUSSIAN ANALYSIS OF WESTERN PRESS
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February 9, 2016
Russian air strikes in Aleppo, which began shortly after the opening of the Geneva talks on Syria and on the background of the visit to Turkey, German Chancellor Merkel, changing the whole military and political landscape of Syria, wrote the Western press. Diplomacy in agony, a humanitarian catastrophe and growing migration crisis, Western leaders look “angry and helpless.” “The agony of Aleppo” will be for Europe “test of decisiveness” and “the turning point of the civil war in Syria,” analysts commented. Russia uses the US indecision and perhaps even Obama bowed to …read more