It is of Russia’s interest to crush the
Islamist insurrections in Syria and leave
Assad in a powerful position
Russia's failure to pursue the west to
do so? In any case, it came down to
the fact that the United States failed to
be inclusive of a new and transformed
Russia, when it had the chance, by
denying them of the perceived prestige
that comes to be denoted as a
superpower and by not bringing it
closer to NATO. Now days, it seems as
if the United States is whining at the
fact that Russia got back on its feet; or
at least at their successful attempts to
portray Russia as such. This is not to
say that Russia is an innocent victim.
The intricacies of foreign politics are
doomed to be tied to the zero-sum
game theory, in which one side’s win
comes only at the expense of the other’s
loss. Both Russia and the
United States know this lesson by heart
(after all, there is a limited number of
countries in the world that either side
can court in an attempt to expand its
sphere of influence). Russia and
NATO’s
involvement
in
the
Euromaidan/2014
Ukrainian
Revolution, as well as in Georgia and
Syria, is reminiscent of the proxy-wars
that defined the later part of the 20th
century as a struggle between the
Socialist East and the Democratic
West. All of these battlegrounds are
real ly just manifestations of the deep
distrust that exists along these two
ideological
adversaries,
and
unfortunately feature no end in sight.
After all, shifting strategies at this point
may come with the connotation that
U.S. foreign
Cold War 2.0