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Quest’ articolo di Christoph Reuter, pubblicato da Der Spiegel, spiega i conflitti all’interno di quello che rimane del regime baathista siriano, e almeno una delle ragioni dell’intervento russo.

Fear of his enemies was the primary reason for Bashar Assad’s call for help to Moscow. “But right after that came the fear of his friends,” says a Russian official who long worked in his country’s embassy in Damascus. The friend he refers to is Iran, the Syrian regime’s most important protector.

 

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