And here lies the problem: Putin’s sense of Hobbesian realism calls for the adoption of an approach to world politics that is in essence a struggle of all against all, while Obama’s realism encourages disengagement in the hope of avoiding such struggle, ceding one battle after another – the eventual result is to set the ground for a struggle for which no one is really prepared.
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The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad
The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad | Foreign Affairs.
In short, Putin wants no change in Syria, and his people will keep fighting for regime preservation in Geneva 2 and beyond, even as the country and the region implode. Caught between the ideological blinders of Obama and those of Putin, a rock and a hard place indeed, Syria has been lost and millions of her citizens are now paying the price. Acting in his own unique way, each leader managed to conjure up the worst case scenario had had dreaded all along, and since each is in the habit of running forward from his fuckups, the situation is bound to get worse. Regional meltdown is around the corner, and the fallouts will go global.
Syria signs offshore oil and gas exploration deal with Russia
Syria signs offshore oil and gas exploration deal with Russia — RT Business.
Ah, and this is the very stuff that genocide is made of, and for. Russia’s Putin, the great defender of national sovereignty and nonintervention in domestic affairs, rears his ugly head again and shows he’s nothing more than an oil-digger, or, an oil-thief to be exact. How fitting.
Unreasonable!
Jimmy Carter and Robert Pastor wrote:
“These preconditions should not be controversial, but they mean that Syrian factions — and their supporters — would have to back down from their former unreasonable demands.”
Yeah, I guess demanding freedom from tyranny is really quite unreasonable. That’s why I guess, the U.S. did not support us, and pro-democracy activists and moderate rebels were left to face Assad’s killing machine, oiled by Russia and Iran, on their own, seeing that Saudi, Qatar and Turkey supported the other extreme.
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