Sunday 5 January 2014

Imperial Presidencies

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 "What restrains Putin [and his Chinese equivalent] from supporting Iran is the fear of being seen as international pariahs."
 Just seen on Washington Journal on the BBC Parliament channel. Instinctively sounded more plausible than the school of international relations that tells us that Russia will start WW3 to defend its interests in Syria, and the US is trying to invade the place.

 In response to the first question he says he wishes that there were some way for the 'international community' to remove Assad, but that we are not there yet. I don't think outside imposed régime change is the answer, but then Andelman doesn't spell out the means he would prescribe, and in fact is more in the can't do anything camp, and is not an offence to Syrians the way those who want to stop attacks on Assad are.

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