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Partnering With Putin

Partnering With Putin

Vladimir Putin wants the United States and Russia to work together to defeat ISIS, as they did to defeat the Nazis. But intervening in foreign affairs usually ends up bad for America. ...
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Vladimir Putin wants the United States and Russia to work together to defeat ISIS, as they did to defeat the Nazis. But as this survey of U.S. foreign policy shows, intervening in foreign affairs usually ends up bad for America. 

On September 28, 2015, President Vladimir Putin of Russia addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His speech dealt primarily with the situation in Syria, where radical Islamists seek to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. While Russia supports Assad and has committed its military to stop the advance of the hyper-radical Islamic State, the United States has for some time supported forces opposed to Assad, forces led by supposedly “moderate” Islamists. Unhappily, the demarcation line that separates the “moderates” from the radicals is so poorly defined that a good deal of the armaments and equipment supplied by the United States to the “moderates” has found its way into the hands of the radicals.

In attempting to form a type of alliance with United States, the Russian president spoke as follows: “On the basis of international law, we must join efforts to address the problems that all of us are facing and create a genuinely broad international coalition against terrorism. Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces that are resolutely resisting those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind. And, naturally, the Muslim countries are to play a key role in the coalition, even more so because the Islamic State does not only pose a direct threat to them, but also desecrates one of the greatest world religions by its bloody crimes.”

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