ISIS AND THE JIHADISTS vs PUTIN: 1/4: Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence by Anna Borshchevskaya ISIS AND THE JIHADISTS vs PUTIN: 1/4: Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
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Putin intervened in Syria in September 2015, with international critics predicting that Russia would overextend itself and Barack Obama suggesting the country would find itself in a “quagmire” in Syria. Contrary to this, Anna Borshchevskaya argues that in fact Putin achieved significant key domestic and foreign policy objectives without crippling costs, and is well-positioned to direct Syria's future and become a leading power in the Middle East.
This outcome has serious implications for Western foreign policy interests both in the Middle East and beyond. This book places Russian intervention in Syria in this broader context, exploring Putin's overall approach to the Middle East – historically Moscow has a special relationship with Damascus – and traces the political, diplomatic, military and domestic aspects of this intervention. Borshchevskaya delves into the Russian military campaign, public opinion within Russia, as well as Russian diplomatic tactics at the United Nations. Crucially, this book illustrates the impact of Western absence in Syria, particularly US absence, and what the role of the West is, and could be, in the Middle East.
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| 0:49.0 | Syria, the darkness visible of Syria, a failed state, a catastrophe for the region and for the planet. The new book, Putin's war in Syria, Russian foreign policy, and the price of America's absence, |
| 0:56.0 | Anaborschaevschaia, of the Washington Institute, now the author, Anaborschahev's Kaya. |
| 1:02.8 | And we begin with an incident that is bright in my memory, and for Americans watching the presidency |
| 1:09.2 | react to catastrophes in the Middle East certainly will all remember this. It is August 21st, 2013. |
| 1:17.0 | Word comes of a chemical weapon attack in a suburb of Damascus. |
| 1:24.0 | The country is at civil war, has been for several years now since the Arab Spring, |
| 1:29.8 | but this is extraordinarily outside the understanding of what is acceptable, especially because |
| 1:36.2 | the Obama administration and the president himself has indicated for more than a year |
| 1:42.1 | that using weapons of mass destruction, especially |
| 1:45.1 | chemical weapons, is a red line. Anna, congratulations, a very good evening |
| 1:51.0 | to you, the President of the United States reacts and Russia reacts. |
| 1:56.0 | What do we need to know about these days between August and September of 2013? |
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