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The Moscow Times - Putin's Goals in Syria Went Beyond Saving Assad
Musings of a Russian General of the multifaceted rationale behind the Russian military expedition in Syria.
By Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg
Jan 5, 2018
Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin in Damascus, Syria
The Russian Defense Ministry is denying a report by a leading Moscow newspaper that seven Russian warplanes were destroyed in a New Year's Eve attack on the Khmeimim air base in Syria. Two Russian servicemen died in the attack, according to the ministry. Clearly, fighting in Syria isn't over for Russia yet, despite President Vladimir Putin's self-congratulatory conversations with Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad. Recently, however, General Valery Gerasimov, head of Russia's General Staff, made public his post-mortem of the Syrian operation, revealing Russia's military priorities in Syria and its persistent conviction that every conflict in which it is involved is a proxy war against the U.S. That war won't be over even once Syrian violence subsides. In the interview with pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gerasimov provides the basis for Putin's claims that Russia has defeated ISIS.....
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Musings of a Russian General of the multifaceted rationale behind the Russian military expedition in Syria.