Enter The Big Bad Putin.
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Sixty-one per cent said the country is moving in the right direction, up from 55% in the previous two months, according to the respected pollster Levada Centre. The latest source of tension is a report from high-profile US military and intelligence officials claiming that Russia’s submarines and spy ships appear to be operating near undersea cables that carry up to 95 percent of the world’s Internet communications. Instead, the number of respondents both supporting and opposing government policy in Syria rose sharply following the start of the air strikes, while the number of people saying they were undecided fell by half. The depiction of the protests as being driven by the extremists and orchestrated from overseas by the West, was presented as evidence of its illegitimacy, whereby the protestors could not be considered an authentic representation of the Ukrainian people, but rather as actors who had been bought-off by the U.S. and EU. Strong sanctions and a clear demonstration of support for Ukrainian territorial integrity would have had a real impact when Putin moved on Crimea in February and March, and I recommended them at the time. So for me, I’m a person who is here to be happy to enjoy people to help make it a better place to encourage other people to come to Russia, because Russia is good and the people of Russia are good. Rather, they have just been concentrating their efforts on what is most important to them: keeping Assad in power.
This does not have to be the Cold War round two, though. But if we oust Assad, what happens then? That is my fear – that we have backed these rebels, given them guns, money and so forth and all without knowing their true intentions. But it doesn’t have to be. Unfortunately for Putin and Russian Federation things are not progressing as quickly as they would like.
I don’t think we should be so quick to ignore what good Russia’s military forces could do.
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The allies were set to discuss “the key aspects of anti-terrorism activity on the territory of [Commonwealth of Independent States] countries and issues of countering terrorist organizations and groups that have been trained in Syria and Afghanistan”, said one Kremlin spokesperson, as reported by Tass, a state-owned news agency.
