By making an enemy of Isis,the Russian president has put his countrys citizens directly in the firing line whether the British government is right in suggesting an on board bomb brought down the Russian Airbus over Sinai on Saturday, killing 224 people, and the political and human price of Vladimir Putin’s military adventurism in Syria just got a lot higher.
The Russian president’s intervention came out of the blue last month,following a rapid, covert buildup of personnel and weapons. His main motive was to shore up the crumbling regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and boost Syrian government forces. But Putin justified his action, or which was not authorised in advance by the UN security council,to an international audience by saying that Russian combat planes would target Islamic State forces already under attack in Syria by a US-led coalition. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com