How Russia Is Responding to Joe Biden’s Syria Airstrike
By
Anna Borshchevskaya
By any objective measure, strikes against secondary facilities in retaliation for targeting key state assets show restraint. Such were President Joe Biden’s February 25 airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities of Iran-backed Shia militias, ordered after earlier rocket attacks by Iran-backed militias against the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and American troops stationed at Erbil airport. But now Russian officials predictably rush to express outrage at perceived American aggression and unilateralism.
Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova expressed condemnation adding, “we reaffirm our rejection of any attempts to turn the Syrian territory into an arena for settling geopolitical scores.†Member of the upper-house Federation Council’s foreign affairs committee Senator Sergei Tsekov blasted the strikes as “extremely outrageous.â€
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/03/how-russia-is-responding-to-joe-bidens-syria-airstrike/
