Russia is nowhere near as isolated or as bereft of options in Syria as Western governments would like to believe.‘We’re not going to make Syria a proxy war between the United States and Russia’, US President Barack Obama told journalists recently, as Russian jets continued their air strikes over the war-torn country. But that statement can only be interpreted in one of two ways: that the US no longer cares about Syria, and is prepared to abandon it to Russia’s sphere of influence; or the White House is simply unwilling to face today’s strategic realities.The Middle East is heading precisely …read more
Source: Royal United Services Institute