"Those who get angry are hardly ever right."
--Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
in response to US pulling Ambassador to Syria
Since the Cold War, the Russian Bear has been growling at the Eagle and his allies because it desires to be the big kahuna...not only in the region, but globally. So their recent veto at the UN Security Council concerning sanctions upon Syria, is no surprise...
It's just the case of a mama bear protecting its cubs...and in this case, the cubs are Russia's financial investments...and their ideology.
Russia has longtime commercial, military, and political ties with Syria. Russian investments in Syria in 2009 were valued at $20 billion, primarily in arms deals, energy, infrastructure expansion, and tourism. And in 2010, their exports to Syria totaled $1.1 billion.
“Russia is now a business-oriented country, and the Russian government obviously wants to protect the investments made by its businessmen in Syria...But, the main reason in being so stubborn [blocking UN action against Syria] is because Moscow perceives that the Western bloc is wrecking stability in the Middle East in pursuit of wrong-headed idealistic goals...Western idealism has contributed to chaos in the Middle East, and for once Russian foreign policy is right not to want any part of it,” says ” Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the independent Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow.
I have bad news for the 'we are the world' fanatics out there: Worldviews are different and when reality runs into the road...it's not a smooth landing.
When the 'brilliance' of communism collapsed in 1991, it never ended Russia's desire to be a world hegemony. And their economic feasibility trumps truth, justice...and anything right that gets in their way.
The Kremlin considers the US and the West to be "hysterical" in their opposition and interference in Syria because it interferes with Russia's wallet...and their doomed worldview.
They are not, nor ever have been, concerned with liberty, democracy or the 'foolish' ideals of a free people...but rather only with what fits in their iron fist.
Shalom through strength...
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