What it has to do with the Middle East?
Everything. Putin and his supporters belong “back in the USSR.” His entire orientation to the Middle East is shaped by his Soviet sensibilities and KGB training.
I have posted before on how instrumental KGB operatives and Soviet expatriates were in further stoking anti-Semitic hysteria and a pro-USSR orientation of the Arab and Islamic worlds.
As the article above states: “everything is about to fall apart” for Putin.
Because Soviet habits breed Soviet collapses.