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"Whatever happens, regional leaders are well aware that Moscow has come to the Middle East to stay."

"“They want to be reckoned with, to have enough clout so that nothing will take place in the region without their consent,” the secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said in an interview last week. “And they are succeeding.”"

[EQAndyBuzz]

“”“They want to be reckoned with, to have enough clout so that nothing will take place in the region without their consent,” the secretary-general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said in an interview last week. “And they are succeeding.”” “

Geopolitically and geographically, Russia is the gateway to Europe and Asia. They want conflict to be as far away from their borders as possible.