Vladimir Putin kicked this week off with a speech at the United Nations calling the West’s refusal to back SyrianPresident Bashar al-Assad an “enormous mistake.” Days later, when Russian bombs began to drop on targets within Syria, many analysts warned that Putin was making a sizable mistake himself by inserting Russia into the middle of Syria’s intractable civil war. Other experts have labeled Putin a strategic grandmaster running circles around his Western counterparts.
Though Russian Defense Ministry Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia and the United States see “eye-to-eye” on combatting the Islamic State in Syria, U.S. Secretary of Defense …read more
Source: European Voice
