"The timing of the Russian airstrikes was more than a surprise — it seemed designed to insult the U.S. president and to demonstrate Putin's swagger at a moment when world leaders are gathered at the United Nations, reassessing global security. “That kind of political theater is important to him,” said Paul Salem, vice president for policy and research at the Middle East Institute. "Misbehaving is part of his global game."
Late Tuesday night, hours before the strikes, Secretary of State John Kerry convened a meeting of several regional diplomats at New York's Palace Hotel to discuss a collective strategy for Syria. The group failed to agree on a unified approach, but now Russia's strikes are forcing a larger U.S. reassessment of the situation in Syria and how to approach it.
One former senior Obama official said he doesn't see danger of a direct military clash between Russia and the U.S. But, he added,"obviously this is a huge political thorn in our side.""
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/vladimir-putin-syria-obama-214284
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-say-russia-targets-them-rather-than-isis.html?ref=world
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