As I usually emphasize, Putin’s dedication to keep away from conflict has the results of widening conflict because the consequence has been increasingly harmful provocations.
Iran stated Israel shall be punished for the assault, inflicting President Biden to overlook which nation he’s president of and rush to Israel’s protection sending extra US army drive into an space already over-loaded with US army, declaring: “We’re dedicated to the protection of Israel. We’ll assist Israel. We’ll assist to defend Israel.”
It was Putin who prevented President Obama’s overthrow of Syria by proactively sending the Russian Air Pressure to Syria’s protection. That is an instance, maybe the one one, of Putin displaying strategic imaginative and prescient in conflict. The good puzzle is: why has Putin left Syria unprotected with air protection towards Israeli and US assaults? If the Israeli planes that attacked Damascus had been shot down, we’d not be going through the escalation of Israeli aggression into Iran and an outbreak of wider conflict.
In an age of nuclear weapons, conflict should be averted. The avoidance of conflict requires countervailing drive towards the aggressors. As Russia and China don’t present the countervailing drive, the conflict widens.
