{"id":48458,"date":"2015-10-04T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48458"},"modified":"2015-10-04T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:13:53","slug":"all-right-minded-people-must-support-russia-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/04\/all-right-minded-people-must-support-russia-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"All Right-minded People Must Support Russia in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Kumar Moses<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At last some sensible action from Russia to the chagrin of the US and EU. Russian jets have pounded near-uncivilized terrorists in Syria who have already killed close to a quarter of a million people. USA and KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) funded FSA (Free Syria Army) to fight against popular leader Assad. But the chaos gave rise to Saudi and Qatar funded Sunni terrorists mainly the ISIS. Since then it has been utter chaos. Europe was punished with a steady stream of refugees escaping fighting in Syria, Libya and Iraq \u2013 all US creations.<\/p>\n<p>However, Russia has been already warned by USA and KSA to stop attacking their darling terrorists. Chechnyan terrorists were financed by these groups as well as the Mujahidin (which later graduated to Al Qaeda) in Afghanistan in 1980s. Russia must be mindful of repercussions of its operations in a region logic and proper senses have no place. Russia must not hesitate to militarily neutralize threats emanating from Saudi Arabia by way of financing anti-Russian activities. Such a move would also boost petroleum prices saving Russia from its current economic meltdown. Such a bold move by Russia will turn Russia, Iran (in deep economic crisis due to low oil prices and years under sanctions) and Venezuela (another country in economic crisis) into super rich nations overnight. A halfhearted approach will not yield results. It is the expectation of these nations that look up to Russian leaders to guide them out of misery.<\/p>\n<p>If all non-ISIS terrorist groups can be exterminated or substantially weakened by the bombing campaign, it will leave only the Assad government and ISIS as influential stakeholders in Syria. In that event, the west will have to go with Assad even reluctantly than join forces with ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is running out of options and friends. Contrary to its interests, USA lifted sanctions against Iran over Saudi funding ISIS terrorists. Faced with another problem after Yemen, plaguing family crises in the ruling family and a nagging economic crisis due to low oil prices, Saudi will have to bow down to Russian pressure or face worse consequences of outright war. USA and UK will not come to its rescue as they too fear for their own economies after decades of unwinnable wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumar Moses At last some sensible action from Russia to the chagrin of the US and EU. Russian jets have pounded near-uncivilized terrorists in Syria who have already killed close to a quarter of a million people. USA and KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) funded FSA (Free Syria Army) to fight against popular leader Assad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kumar-moses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}