Putin Claims Russia Is Cleaning Up Obama’s Mess in Syria By Rob Garver
In Vladimir Putin’s version of the Middle East, the current civil war and attendant humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is a mess of the United States’ making, and one that the Russian military – out of the Kremlin’s commitment to stability in the region – is being forced to clean up.
Appearing at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday not long after U.S. President Barack Obama, Putin described the crisis in Syria as the result of foreign governments fomenting revolts in various countries during the Arab Spring, and creating a vacuum into which ISIS was able to step.
In Putin’s worldview, the shadowy power behind popular uprisings against tyrannical leaders – from Ukraine in Europe to Syria in the Middle East, and to Libya in North Africa, is always the United States. And though he didn’t specifically say it, it was clear that when he described what he sees as the result of these alleged U.S. policies, he was speaking directly to Obama.
“Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life.”
“Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life,” Putin said. “I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”
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