Via Economicnoise Vladimir Putin recently announced that he would be largely withdrawing from Syria. There was however, no complete “mission accomplished” but there is no denying that the Russians have done a lot better than the Americans. Russia has been strategic, while the USA has been a little reckless. The United States has failed at trying to find reliable third parties to do their counterinsurgency. The Russians on the other hand targeted mostly al Qaeda allied militant groups (including many of the loose coalition”FSA” groups etc.) and more recently they turned their attention to ISIS. For the Russians it …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
