03-09-2020, 02:11 PM
(03-05-2020, 11:08 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ...-Putin also would have liked to occupy the Deir Al-ZoorAl oil wells so that Assad can pay him back.
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Vladimir Putin is the most dishonest of the participants in that
everything he says is a lie. So we can only infer his objectives:
- In exchange for supporting al-Assad, Russia now has two
military bases in Syria, the Tartus naval base and the Hmeimim
airbase. When al-Assad begged Putin for military help in 2015, Putin
agreed to help, and received control of the two military bases in
return.
- Putin would like to split Turkey away from Nato. This is the only
reason that Putin is even talking to Erdogan.
- This is more speculative, but I believe that Putin would take
great pleasure in seeing those four million civilians in Idlib cross
over into Turkey, and then cross over into Europe.