Arab Experts: Putin Is Restoring Russia's Mideast Role

[Egalitarian]

Arab experts say that Russian President Vladimir Putin's Middle East trip that starts Sunday has the primary aim of "sending a message" to the United States that Moscow has a key role to play in this vital region and that it is high time for Washington to quit its policies of domination.

"By carrying out this exceptional trip, I believe Putin is at pains to dispatch a message to the United States that the Middle East is not a backyard for Washington, but a vital area for the whole world," Faisal al-Rofou, head of the political science department at the University of Jordan, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa

The Russian president was due to arrive in oil-rich Saudi Arabia Sunday at the start of a rare Middle East trip that also takes him to the Gulf state of Qatar and Jordan.

In his toughest-worded comments in seven years in power, Putin lashed out at the United States Saturday during the Munich Security Conference, saying a US-led "unipolar world" was unacceptable and had led to more wars and conflicts across the globe.

Complete article here: http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_13560-Arab-Experts-Putin-Is-Restoring-Russias-Mideast-Role.html

Well, if we can't keep our government under control, maybe we will get some assistance.

[muntrv]

1. How long before China also asserts its' role in the Middle East?

Pretty soon, in my opinion.

[Deja Q]

3. And when the Middle East will speak up for itself too...

I'm sure they just looooooooooove being the pawn being a puppet torn between how many other countries' interests? (and given how some believe the Saudis wanted the USA to invade Iraq for them, one could start claiming other things too...?)

:sarcasm:

[Deja Q]

2. What's the name of that ~80s movie where Russia takes over the US?

:scared:

[C_U_L8R]

4. Y'mean the one the freeps wank to ?

Red Dawn. Freeper Porn.

[madrchsod]

5. i understood this as soon as putin started

his goal of establishing dialog with the middle east again. in just a few years bush has made it possible for russia to become the broker in the middle east.
if we can not control our government we will be in a depression greater than the 1930`s