In an op-ed published Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin bypassed the Obama administration and made his case against military intervention in Syria directly to the American people.
Putin, in a piece that seemed calibrated to address the American public’s fears regarding an additional military entanglement, offered a stern warning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko/File)
A potential strike by the US against the Bashar Assad regime would create more victims and could spread the conflict beyond Syria as well as “unleash a new wave of terrorism,” wrote the Russian leader.
“It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa.”
He said that a US strike, without the unanimous consent of the UN Security Council, “could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.”
Yoel Goldman
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