Editor’s Note…

The rapidly expanding direct Russian involvement in the Syrian war is a result of Obama’s increasingly irrelevant paradigm of “leading from behind”. This is roughly comparable to Russia defeating Germany single handedly in WW2 without the allies landing in Europe. Thephony war on ISIS wasn’t supposed to end like this according to NATO’s plans, but the unwillingness of public opinion in NATO countries to allow direct involvement in Syria (while Russian public opinion has no similar strings attached to the Kremlin’s hands) appears to be leaving NATO hanging out to dry while Putin is about to grab all the potential dividends of “saving the world from ISIS” and positioning himself in the ultimate mooring post of the Mediterranean natural gas fields. The upcoming Russian naval drill in that region, involving n ... Tovább »