I’m certainly no wizard at chess but I’ve played the game of strategy enough to appreciate a player that does possess such talents. Before the build up of Russian military hardware and troops in Syria last week, Putin’s approach to the Syrian Civil War had taken the form of a political counter-balance, checking Western attempts to upend Bashar al-Assad. Since March 2011, widely considered the start of the uprising in Syria, Russia, along with China, has wielded its right to veto, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), on four separate occasions. In …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
