How Syria Stand Helps Putin at Home

How Syria Stand Helps Putin at Home

Have a look at Vladimir Putin’s day planner over the past month, and you could be forgiven for thinking the Russian President has become the most powerful man in the world. Since the start of May, a parade of political giants have flown to Russia to reason with him on the issue of Syria and its civil war. All of them have failed to change his mind, or even his tone, and the only ones left celebrating Russia’s role in the crisis (other than Syrian President Bashar Assad) seem to be the Kremlin’s propaganda men. Just ask Mikhail Leontiev, one of the leading spin doctors on Russian state TV. “The West is running to us,” he told me gleefully on Wednesday, after the latest delegation from Europe, which included British Prime Minister David Cameron, had gone. “They need us. They want to talk to us. When was the last time that happened?”

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