Recent Russian military operations should not come as a surprise – for twenty years, the Kremlin has been trying to restore the country’s status as a world leaderThe world can be divided into two: those who ‘get’ modern Russia and those who do not. At the moment, most of the world falls into the latter category, with much of the commentariat by turns confused, confounded and outraged by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest international gambit. Exasperated and enraged, US President Barack Obama has accused Russia of disinformation and bad faith with its Syrian intervention, and of short-sightedly propping-up a bloody …read more
Putin’s Gambit in Syria
