Russia in the Middle East

By Vanilla Tang

Recently,Russia paid more attention to the events in the Middle East.The activities of the U.S in Iraq and Libya cause these Russia's critical partners not easily to cooperate with Russia in fields of energy and arms sales.It may promote the US-Russian relations in some conflicts in problem of Syria and the Iran nuclear,even though for U.S there is no possible to stop Russia's intervention of the Middle East.Learnt from the recent news,Russia has offered Egypt some modern helicopters and help build air defense systems.These millitary aids are worth 2 million dollars.The transaction between Russia and Egypt refers to set up Russian navel bases in the Mediterranean. Russia also devotes itself to getting closer to Israel and selling weapons to Iraq.

We may think that Russia is preparing to return to the Middle East political affairs in the Middle East to reject the power of U.S. But in fact, Russia's approach is nothing more than a continuation of its past policy which is to avoid directly conflicting with the United States while their own forces have a chance to penetrate into the Middle East. In the past 10 years, Russia has identified several Middle Eastern countries with the complex foreign policy, such as Iran, Syria, Libya. And it also tried to provide a guarantee to Western countries: Russia has the ability to resolve the Middle East crisis, as long as Western countries to make more concessions to Russia, especially in economic. Meanwhile, Russia also pretend to put much pressure on the United States, in the front of  some Middle East countries like Iran and Syria.


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