The West can neither defeat the Islamic State militarily nor rebuild Syria.
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Edward Lucas, editor of the international department of the British publication The Economist, comes to this conclusion in a publication on the pages of the Ukrainian Week magazine, according to whom the West has few alternatives to oppose Russia in Syria, since the leadership of the United States is invisible.
“The last 15 years of Western interventions in places from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya have been disastrous failures,” says Lucas. – The participation of the West, which would be needed to defeat ISIS and restore Syria, seems impossible both politically and financially or militarily. The great “achievement” of the West today is that, against the backdrop of its failures, Putin can gain the image of a responsible statesman to whom we turn in desperation for help. Well, he can now set his own price. What will it be like?”