For many in the West, Russia’s return to the world stage over the past few years has come as a surprise, and not an especially pleasant one. After the downfall of the Soviet Union, the country was written off as a regional power, a filling station masquerading as a state.
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Dmitri Trenin: Russia’s comeback isn’t stopping with Syria
A Russian army vehicle takes part in a patrol of members of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish internal security forces and Russian military police in the town of Darbasiyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province along the Syria-Turkey border on Oct. 30, 2019.
