... jihadists by helping Shiite Alawite Assad massacre mainly Sunni rebels and civilians with the help of Shiite Hezbollah and Shiite Iran just for Russia's having a naval base on Syria’s coast and a few new bases inside Syria as well as a client ... ... Iran, and Hezbollah and that Egypt’s own explosive and volatile domestic security situation with its own people and an ISIS franchise running amok in the Sinai (one which apparently was able to blow up a Russian airliner) will not be major liabilities....
... increase Russia’s global power by
a.) framing the intervention as Russia taking a responsible and leading role in combating ISIS and preserving state sovereignty/the world order; this in turn can hopefully
b.) Relieve pressure/sanctions regarding Russian ... ... that is a small minority in Syria) Bashar al-Assad and is controlled mainly by Alawate Shiites. It is backed by Shiite Persian Iranians and the Arab Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Sunni Muslims, in general, do not like Shiites, and that is an understatement; ...
A Sensible Grading of Obama’s Middle East Strategy: The Syrian Civil ... ... deadliest. Here, as in other situations, we have a crisis in which we must be careful not to blame Obama ... ... by their Arab brethren in the happier days of the Arab Spring in 2011. This was, generally, a struggle ... ... Qaddafi’s, had strong patrons in Russia and Iran who would complicate and increase the costs of ... ... major Western governments (including that of the United States), Human Rights Watch, and later by the ...