Vladimir Putin opened a new game of high stakes geopolitical poker. He is using military force to support Syria’s President Bashar Assad and counter U.S. backing for Assad’s opponents. Russia’s intervention almost certainly will turn out badly — apparently losing an airliner likely is just the start — but Washington has no complaint. America has been meddling in Syria’s tragic civil war from the start with little effect, other than to impede a negotiated settlement. Moscow has the same geopolitical “right” to make a mistake. At the end of the Cold War Washington was anointed as the “unipower,” “indispensable” …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
