An Agreement has been reached by Russia and the USA for a "partial" Truce in the War in Syria, to permit a delivery of Humanitarian Aid to the starving civil population. The final détails of this Truce will be made known this week. The war against the Islamic State will not be stopped. Western and other countries have not yet been consulted.
However, Putin's global aims for Russia in Western Europe and in the Mediterranean, are slowly becoming clear. They can be succinctly resumed in the following way :
1. Provide military help to Rebels of Russian origin in Eastern Ukraine for two reasons
- to obtain a land corridor in the South from Russia to Crimea, which was annexed in 2014,
- to prevent Ukraine from joining the EU !
2. Back Bachar al Assad militarily to help him to regain the Presidency of Syria,
- by fighting the Islamic State Muslims and other Rebels in Syria, and thus,
- safeguard the right of Russian ships to Anchor in Syrian ports on the Mediterranen Sea, perhaps for the next 50 Years !
NB : Russia recently obtained a berth in Cyprus !
3. Help Greece in any way possible ! Last year observers were surprised to learn that Tsipras, the Prime Minister of Greece had met President Putin in Moscow. The least that one can say is that Greece has never really obtained what it needs from the EU !
One must not forget that Putin needs to justify why he has deployed Russian troops and munitions in the Middle East to fight Islamists ! He rules with the iron hand of a Dictator and life in Russia is hard for some people, but he does have an opposition !
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