Obama’s Weakness Forces Middle East to Turn to Russia
SputnikNews.com
02.10.2015
Russia’s firm policy in the Middle East has finally given results. Now Moscow is playing the leading role in the Middle East, and the US’ traditional allies in the region are struggling to win support from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Israeli newspaper Nrg Maariv reported.
While the US is getting cold feet on their future actions in the region Russia is taking decisive steps despite sanctions and a downturn in its economy. The US policy in the Middle East failed, the author wrote.
“The Syrian opposition trained by Washington gave up to the al-Nusra Front. The Iraqi army failed to defeat ISIL despite the support from the US,” the article read.
The US spent $90 billion for the war on terrorism but it was all in vain. After Washington withdrew its troops from Iraq in 2011 President Barack Obama refused to start another war in the Middle East.
“Putin is realizing the weakness of the US, and he is taking on America’s worldwide hegemony. This is why Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have turned to Moscow for help,” Eytan Gilboa, Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
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