Syria’s civil war is unambiguously showing that Russia sticks by its long-time allies, while the West, especially the United States, continues to disengage from the Middle East.
A Syrian affairs expert, Jonathan Spyer, who visited Australia recently, is a senior fellow at the Israel-based Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center. He told his Australian audience that Russia, hand-in-glove with Iran, is propping up the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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