Posted on 04/12/2020 5:49:32 AM PDT by Nextrush
Since the beginning of its intervention in Syria in September 2015, Russia has not only sought to keep in place its most faithful Arab ally, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. It has also wanted to regain the regional and global influence that it lost since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin has sought to use the turmoil in the Middle East to erase international norms and advances in international humanitarian law made since the second world war. In fact, creating the humanitarian disaster that has turned almost 6m Syrians into refugees has not been a byproduct of the Russian president's strategy. It has been one of his central goals.
I believe that Mr. Assad is the most barbarous ruler that the world has seen since Joseph Stalin.....
(Excerpt) Read more at georgesoros.com ...
I thought about it but couldn’t control myself...
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