After four years, since the start of
the Crisis in Syria, Russia enters into Syria, to protect its long term Middle
Eastern ally, President Azad. Not only the Americans, but their European allies
such as Britain, France and Germany perplexed at the swiftness of which the
Russians started the bombing campaign against ISIS and anti-Assad rebel groups.
For Putin’s Russia, it is a show of strength, after decades of hands-off policy
not to fight in foreign country, following the collapse of Soviet Union.
According various European media
sources, Putin’s military intervention in Syria is to get concession as well as
relief from sanctions from the West, following its annexation of Crimea and its
involvement in supporting the rebels in Eastern Ukraine. But in the Syrian
crisis, the Russians are acting as per international law. They are acting by
the invitation of the legitimate leader of Syria, whom the United States and
their allies accused of killing his own people, and committed war crimes.
At the beginning of the campaign,
most of the western media and leading senior administration officials,
predicted the Russian invasion doomed to be a failure, they co-related the
Russian campaign to the failed Soviet campaign in Afghanistan. Surprisingly,
the Russian bombing mission alarmed the ISIS as well as anti-Syrian government
rebels within a few days. In short the Russian bombing mission and missile
attack from navy ships stationed in Caspian Sea, made difference among the
fighters on the ground as well as other pro-rebel governments in the Middle
East
But why the Russians come now, not
before? Since the start of the crisis, Russians stopped the West from
forcefully removing Assad’s government. The Americans and their allies were
reminded of the Iraq and Libyan chaos due to the forceful removal of their
leaders, and sprout of various terror groups including ISIS, and Al- Nusra
front.
Since then for the last four years the United States and their allies
were trying hard by all means to remove Assad from power and eradicate the
notorious terror group ISIS, but none of their attempt succeeded instead sent
millions of refugees to flee to Europe. The funny thing is that, the Americans,
with several hundred military trainers and experts, in addition with Iraq
government forces and Shia militants were trying hard to retake the Iraqi city
of Ramadi from the ISIS, for several months and so on the US trained rebels in
Syria handed over their weapons to ISIS for their safe passage. Several months
of bombing by United States and their allies yielded no results except the
expansion of ISIS stronghold in Syria.
Therefore the Americans and their
allies find no reason to stop Russia entering into the battle field.
Despite the gloomy prospects for the
Russian intervention to be another Afghanistan for Russia, the air strikes of
Russian jets forced the events of the battle to be favorable to Assad
government. Within four months, the Russians forced all the warring factions to
a negotiating table that inspired both the Western and the Middle Eastern
leaders, many of the former allies of the West, in the Middle East turn to the
Russians, to find a favorable solution to the Syrian crises.
Meanwhile the surprise withdrawal of
main forces from Syria perplexed many in the Western political circles, for
Putin, as it seems to be, it is to force Syrian leader to be flexible in the
peace negotiation in Geneva.
In short, the Russian military
intervention had given a chance to the Russians, to show the credibility of
their fire power, and restored their Soviet era pride, the Russian leader Vladimir
Putin got the unprecedented level of approval rating among the Russian public.
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