... side’. This interpretation of the can be regarded as biased, oversimplified and self-serving, but it clearly got a lot of traction in the Middle East region, especially among conservative political regimes concerned about a possible new wave of the Arab Spring.
Ruslan Mamedov:
Prospects for Russia–China Cooperation in the Middle East
Within this context the initial stage of the Russian military operation in Syria, launched in September of 2015, should be regarded primarily as a “pedagogical” action. The Russian intention was not to diminish the US positions in the Middle East, not to mention — to drive the US out of the region. It was clear from the ...
... victory in World War II are often cited as justifications of Stalin’s repressions.
Middle Eastern societies have never seen violence as an essential problem. We could... ... Not many.
The Iran–Iraq War took two or three times the number of lives that the Syrian Civil War has.
The growing significance of violence as a problematic issue is... ....
The suppression of the Houthi insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands of human casualties.
All this caused...
... East, that can be summarized the following way:
First. Authoritarian states in the Middle East are in any case better than failed states that come to replace the former... ... interpreted in a very liberal way.
Third. If Russia remains an idle bystander watching the Arab Spring from the sideline, the chaos, instability and terrorism generated in the... ... application of this new approach was, of course, the Moscow engagement into the civil war in Syria. In this bloody and protracted conflict, Moscow demonstrated much more than its...
... East, which can be summarized the following way. First, authoritarian states in the Middle East are in any case better than failed states that come to replace the former... ... interpreted in a very liberal way. Third, if Russia remains an idle bystander watching the Arab Spring from the sideline, the chaos, instability and terrorism generated in the... ... application of this new approach was, of course, the Moscow engagement into the civil war in Syria. In this bloody and protracted conflict, Moscow demonstrated much more than its...
... pluralist democracy. This choice should be recognized as politically correct and practically faultless. The world is focused on the Middle East. Tunisia stands out against that nightmarish background as a bright spot and the only country where the Arab Spring was relatively successful. (Many will say that the night is still young, but then it’s all the more imperative ... ... problem”) – is symbolic as well. In fact, this prize was awarded to Vladimir Putin, who had suggested an elegant plan for Syria’s chemical disarmament, which at that time made it possible to avoid an armed intervention. The OPCW was just lucky ...
Two-and-a-half-years into the Syrian conflict, the balance of power in the embattled state continues to evolve between the government of Bashar al-Assad and ... ... other Arab states. Until the protests in Deraa, Syria’s southwest, broke out, Bashar al-Assad had been convinced that the Arab spring’s revolutionary momentum would not spill into Syria. The regime seemed to have learned from other Arab dictators’ ...
... However, over the long term the ‘winners’ would be the Kurds and Shias – even though the northern portions of Syria have already been occupied by the Turkish army for quite some time.
Consequently, with any proclamation of a Kurdish state ... ... for the US. To this emerging triangular constellation, ambitious and bold PM Erdoğan wishes to beat his own drum.
Past the Arab Spring, neither will Russia effectively sustain its presence in the Middle East on a strict pan-Arabic secular, republican and anti-Islamic idea, nor will the US manage to politically and morally ...
