What Russia Wants, and Has Always Wanted, in the Middle East
Confronting the West.
September 4, 2020
What Russia Wants, and Has Always Wanted, in the Middle East
Confronting the West.
“Nothing is stranger,” writes the historian Robert Service, “than the notion, widely held, that Russia is a newcomer to the Middle East.” Tracing the development of Russian interventions in the region from Catherine the Great’s 18th-century conquests, which brought her empire to the borders of the Ottoman empire, to Vladimir Putin’s current involvement in Syria and Libya, Service calls attention to the constant themes of hostility toward the Turks and competition with the Western powers. But he also notes an ideological component:
September 4, 2020
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