... partners can arguably win the war, but they cannot win the peace in Syria
Historically, the Middle East has never been a Russia’s ... ... Afghanistan to the problem of the Caspian Sea partition. The third was Israel, with is large Russian and Russian-speaking diaspora and ... ... significant adjustments in the Russian strategy.
First, the defeat of ISIS, which is definitely a positive development for everybody ... ... of the conflict. The risks of alienating either Teheran or Jerusalem, or even both of them, are on the rise.
Finally, if Damascus ...
... of History,” the end of the Cold War marked the end of thousands of years of ideological struggle, and the spread of Western ... ... prevent the onset of the greatest global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression (barely managing to address it ... ... failed to effectively deal with conflict in Libya, Ukraine, and Syria, all within or near its periphery. The situation in Syria ... ... which, it was just announced, will be pursued again.
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Even in Israel, considered a bastion of Western democracy in the Middle ...
... Republican Nonsense: Part I: Introduction, Muslim World Reset, Iraq, Israel/Palestine
If you can’t understand that Obama’s ... ...
Grading Obama’s Middle East Strategy (Sensibly): Part II: Syria
The cocks who crow “failure” every time the ... ... America was not in the midst of the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Still even more amusing and amazing ... ... units to be built on illegally occupied, disputed land in East Jerusalem (which was occupied in 1967 along with the West Bank and ...
