President Putin resolved the dual threat from Syria and Ukraine
President Putin said that for Russia, everything that is happening in Ukraine has significance in determining its destiny and future and is a matter of existence or non-existence.
The results of the 2024 election can be predicted because Vladimir Putin is not only the president but also the leader of the Russian people. After this term, if he is healthy enough and has other conditions, he can absolutely run for election in 2030 to lead the country until 2036. Let's find out why he is so highly trusted by Russians. Sincerely introduce to readers a series of articles by Colonel Le The Mau, former Head of Military Science Information Department, Institute of Defense Strategy.
After an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson on February 6, 2024, President Putin said he wanted to convey to Western public opinion the message that everything that is happening in Ukraine for them only has tactical significance, but for Russia it has decisive significance for destiny and future and is a matter of existence or non-existence.
Danger from Ukraine
President Putin has clearly stated what international political and geopolitical strategy researchers have come to the conclusion: The Republic of Ukraine is not just a country that was only formed for the first time after the October Revolution. Ten Russia in 1917 but also one of the "fragments" of the Russian Empire after that revolution, and at the same time the most important factor in the century-long geopolitical war between the West led by the US confront Russia.
What is happening inside and outside Ukraine today not only determines the future of this country but also the future of Russia, and even the world, because Ukraine is the key to Russia's global strategy. The US aims to defeat Russia at a time when the unipolar world order dominated by Washington is shaking.
According to President Putin, the so-called "rules" here are what America, the leader in the West, wants to impose on the rest of the world.
According to Halford Mackinder's geopolitical theory published in 1904, Ukraine occupies an extremely important position in the US global strategy planned in the early twentieth century. In the monograph titled "The Big Chessboard", Zbigniew Brzezinski - former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter - revealed that America's strategic goal after the Cold War was to continue to disintegrate Russia. and to achieve that goal Washington needs to go to Kiev.
Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski commented: "Without Ukraine, Russia would never be able to become a sovereign power, an independent pole in the multipolar world order.
This means that the future of the unipolar world order depends on whether or not the United States, the leader of the West, can separate Ukraine from Russia. In other words, if Russia aligns with Ukraine, one way or another, the unipolar world order will collapse and the geopolitical map will once again change irreversibly."
Therefore, to maintain the unipolar world order after the Cold War, the United States must "close" to Ukraine.
Danger from Syria
According to experts, Washington should not have planned to carry out a coup in Ukraine in 2014 but rather wait until the presidential election in this country will be held in 2015 when the President Yanukovich's term ended.
At that time, they will carry out an "orange revolution" to remove Mr. Yanukovich and bring a pro-American figure to power in Kiev. However, Washington decided to "run ahead of events" because the Ukraine crisis is closely related to another war between the US and Russia in Syria.
Since 2011, according to President Barack Obama's "leading from behind" doctrine, Washington is said to have sparked political upheavals called the "Arab Spring" to gain control of the geopolitical region. The Middle East has a very important position in their global strategy and pushes Russia out of this region.
President Obama assessed that the socio-political upheavals called the "Arab Spring" were as important to the United States as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which began the disintegration of the social system. socialist.
After the US and NATO waged war in Libya and eliminated President Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, US Senator John McCain stated that the Libyan scenario would repeat in Syria, Iran, and other countries in the air. post-Soviet and Russian period.
After returning to the Kremlin in 2012, President Putin decided to help Syria - Russia's ally in the Middle East - neutralize the threat from the "Arab Spring". Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was then facing great danger and President Putin decided to send forces to protect him. Thus, in reality, the war in Syria became a confrontation between two great powers.
Neutralize the threat to Russia before 2022
According to analysts, if Russia fails in Syria, terrorist forces will infiltrate the post-Soviet space to destabilize Russia, even creating a domino reaction that could cause Russia to disintegrate as predicted by Russia. Senator John Mccain.
The extremely complicated developments in Syria are interpreted by President Bashar al-Assad that this country is not a civil war at all but a "miniature world war". French newspaper Le Figaro also commented that in Syria there is a world war between terrorism and anti-terrorism.
Including forces from nearly 90 countries, more than the number of countries participating in World War I and World War II. Therefore, Russia's role in the fight to defeat terrorism in Syria is as important as the Soviet Union's role in the fight to defeat fascism in World War II.
Assessing the US role in the war in Syria, former Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan commented: "President Obama's administration was completely wrong when it said that there was an "Arab Spring" can eliminate the regimes of Middle Eastern countries and establish democracy"
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 after a controversial referendum. This is a decision of extremely important strategic significance, initially bankrupting the US strategic plan in Ukraine.
Next, Russia, along with France and Germany, co-sponsored the Kiev government and the governments of the two self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to sign the Minsk Agreement to peacefully resolve the Ukraine crisis.
The Minsk Agreement has been approved by the United Nations Security Council as the only political solution to end the Ukraine crisis, creating conditions for President Putin to "freeze" this crisis to resolve the conflict. danger in Syria. On September 30, 2015, President Putin launched an anti-terrorism campaign in Syria.
After 2 years of conducting the anti-terrorism campaign in Syria, the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out more than 30,000 flights, completed more than 92,000 airstrikes, and destroyed 96,000 terrorist targets, including 832 bases. command; destroyed 6,769 weapons and ammunition depots, 184 oil exploitation facilities and 132 oil tanker convoys of terrorist organizations.
On that basis, on December 6, 2017, President Putin announced that, basically, international terrorist organizations in Syria had been defeated. At the same time, Russia, along with Iran and Türkiye, co-sponsored the peace process in Syria on the basis of the United Nations Security Council Resolution.
