The Real Story Behind Putin’s Syria Strikes

Steven Lee Myers, Politico
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 2:25pm

<p>T<i>he roots of Russia’s bold intervention in Syria—which began in earnest on Wednesday with airstrikes against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s government near the city of Homs—extend to the beginning of the Arab Spring in early 2011, when Vladimir Putin served as prime minister nominally under his prot&eacute;g&eacute; and hand-picked successor, Dmitri Medvedev.

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