Wayne Madsen
22nd July, 2012
With the replacement of Bashar al-Assad’s government with one subservient to the interests of the Sunni Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf potentates, NATO, the United States, and the globalization plutocrats, Russia will lose its last naval base in the Mediterranean, at Tartus; a radicalized Syria that is in a more strategic location to export radical Islam to the southern Caucasus and largely Muslim regions of Russia; and a West, seeing victory in Libya and Iraq, ready to focus its sights on Iran.
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