... was short-lived, however. After its defeat in the First World War, Germany lost any positions it had gained in the region. In addition, its primary regional ally, the Ottoman Empire, disappeared from the map.
Vladimir Morozov:
Germany, the USA, and Russia in the Changing World
Today, Germany has a historic opportunity to reenter the region by drawing on the Syrian refugees it has accepted. During a televised debate with SPD Chancellorship candidate Martin Schulz,
Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Muslims are an integral part of German society
. Mr. Schulz supported her position, demonstrating a degree of ...
... away right there and then those illegals who come there with “freshly minted” Russian citizenship.
Instead of a real fight against global terrorism which is the true cause of the refugee influx they declared a sanctioning crusade against Russia.
Due to all these reasons, erecting a fence to contain refugees from Syria and other Arab countries is a pointless exercise. But if Norwegians want to build that fence, let them, it’s their country. I suppose they will build a rather short one, a few kilometers long on the approaches to the Borisoglebsk checkpoint....
... these developments are noteworthy, they are by no means enough. We have seen flagrant violations of UN resolutions to protect Syrian civilians, lapses in negotiations attempting to bring a political resolution to the conflict and indifference, even downright hostility, from the international community to support the roughly four million refugees that the war has created.
REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
Maxim Suchkov:
The Middle East between the U.S.
and Russia: Potential Traps for Moscow
What else should Russia do to solve the Syrian crisis and help Syrians survive?
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