Russia’s sudden, invigorated military posture in Syria has set Western foreign policy pundits on their collective ear. President Vladimir Putin, they say, is further reigniting a cold war with the West, attempting to distract the world from his misdeeds in Ukraine, aggressively reinforcing Russia’s strategic military posture in the eastern Mediterranean, blatantly propping up a repressive client regime in Damascus under the guise of global counter-terrorism, and supplanting U.S. leadership in the Middle East in the bargain.
It’s true: Putin is doing all of those things, to one degree or another. But we should ignore the reflexive caterwauling of the pundits …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
