The Kremlin is not our friend. Nor is Moscow a 10-foot-tall threat to our national interests.
What America needs is a middling foreign policy that looks to marginalize Russia’s capacity to mess with us. And there is no better place to start this approach than in Syria.
Putin has made a muscular move to support besieged Syrian strongman Bashar Assad. It came after it was clear Congress couldn’t block the Iran nuclear deal. Coincidence? Probably not.
Russia and Iran have common cause in the Middle East. One of the regimes’ shared goals: getting Tehran out from under the heel of international sanctions.
The Iran …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
