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Quote:............ent Putin has taken on is quite enormous and unmistakably geopolitical in scope and significance. His goals are much broader than just to defeat ISIL, save Assad’s government and restore Syria’s territorial integrity or even to safeguard Russia from ISIL recruits. His ambition is to create an alliance of all righteous forces seeking to bring about peace, stability and order to the Eurasian region and thus inaugurate a new approach to relations.

As he stated,

    “Our approach is different. In the course of creating the Eurasian Economic Union we have strived to develop relations with our partners, including those involved in the Chinese Silk Road Economic Belt initiative. We are actively working based on a principle of equality in BRICS, APEC and the G20…”

Putin’s political and diplomatic efforts in the Middle East are clearly directed at forming a new alliance. Rallying those forces, eager to modernize and establish political and economic coherence and stability from both the EU and the Middle East. To work together “for the region's economic and social development, to restore basic infrastructure, housing, hospitals and schools.”

The geopolitical strategy Putin is offering to the world represents a win-win strategy. It should resonate with all Middle East countries (Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria among others) tired and weary of decades-long wars and increasing chaos. It should also find appeal among Europeans, horrified by the likely prospect of an “invasion of millions of foreigners” posing an existential threat to their union. All these countries and many others, would unanimously embrace the prospect of being rid of the hegemon’s preponderance.

Likewise, a significant portion of the American public itself, tired of their ‘role’ as “the world’s policemen”, would rather see America cooperating in a multi-polar structured world order and focus on its own domestic problems. This convergence of such diverse geopolitical interests comprises a force so broad and powerful as to convince me that the tectonic shift initiated by Putin does have a future.
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