Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Putin holds the key for the West in defeating ISIS

After the devastating terrorist attacks that took place in Paris over the weekend leaving 129 dead, world leaders gathered at the G20 summit and vowed to stand in unity in the fight against these acts of terrorism meted out onto innocent civilians.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks and warned other nations who are involved in Syria that the same actions will be used as seen in Paris.

Syria has been a political hotbed over the past three years with the US remaining firm with its stance that  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad needs to be removed from power and his dictatorial rule was interfering with the freedom of Syrian people who were revolting against him and his government during the Arab Spring.

But in came Vladimir Putin who veto an UN security council meeting vote that would allow the US from invading Syria. Putin and Assad are known allies with the latter spending a good amount on weaponry from the former. This resulted in Putin receiving pressure from the West with many speculating the revival of the Cold War.

So when Putin annexed Crimea , the West took retaliatory action against with little time to spare in the decision making process and found the most drastic measures to take against this act would be to place sanctions on the Russia economy which has had disastrous effects.

However since all parties are at loggerheads with one another the situation on the ground in Syria has descended into chaos with ISIS taking full advantage of this which has resulted in a number of regions being overthrown by the terrorism group and used as a base to plan it's cowardly attacks.

In sweeps in political contortionist Putin to the rescue by increasing the military intervention knowing fully well that the West can't allow terrorism to take hold of the Middle East after years of getting to grips with it. It would only serve to increase the volatility in the region and expose Europe and the US to more danger to terrorist attacks.

 Because the situation has gotten out of control the West has no choice but to allow Russia to intervene since they drew their alliances when declaring Assad must be ousted as leader.
This falls nicely into the lap of Putin who needs to regain lost political ground that he threw away playing political games. He's seen a dramatic drop in economic activity as a result of the sanctions and knows that if they were to continue the political support he was once afforded could diminish very quickly.

It's because of this that it seems as if the West might start easing up on sanctions on Russia in support of the military actions, especially after the attacks on Paris that threatens the whole world's safety.

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