Putin Forms New “Anti-ISIS” Coalition With Syria’s Assad
As the Obama administration’s strategy of showering U.S. support on “moderate” jihadists in Syria under the guise of fighting the Islamic State continues to blow up in everyone’s face, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin (shown) is making deals to battle ISIS alongside Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the Iranian regime, Beijing, and even the Iraqi government installed by Washington. Analysts in the establishment media worldwide variously suggested that Putin, in his dealings at the United Nations and in the Middle East, had “upstaged” and “outsmarted” the White House. Some commentators even declared Putin’s regime to be the world’s new, sole superpower after Obama was left appearing surprised, confused, and ridiculous on the world stage.
For instance, the headline at the Drudge Report — New World Order: Putin Outsmarts Obama — captured the thinking of countless analysts around the world. The link across the top of the Drudge Report, perhaps the world’s most influential source for news, went to a column in the New York Post by Benny Avni entitled “Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader.” And indeed, as far as countless consumers of “mainstream” media were concerned, the White House’s absurd foreign-policy agenda appears to be floundering in the face of Putin’s strategic cunning. A New York Times columnist said “today’s reigning cliché is that the wily fox, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, has once again outmaneuvered the flat-footed Americans.”
Even leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has publicly urged an apparently incompetent Obama to get out of the way so ex-KGB boss Putin and his new coalition can destroy ISIS and Islamic terrorism in Syria alongside Assad. Speaking after Putin and Obama met for 90 minutes on the sidelines of the UN’s festivities this week in New York, Trump even praised the Russian strongman for his supposed “leadership” abilities. “I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he’s getting an ‘A’ and our president is not doing so well,” the billionaire GOP presidential contender told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. “They did not look good together.”
Writing in the Post, Avni argued that Putin had become the world’s most powerful ruler this week. “The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up,” he wrote, adding that Putin, like Obama, had also appealed to “UN laws” amid his unveiling of the new “broad international coalition” to battle ISIS. “Putin? Nobody applauded him. He’s more interested in being feared than liked. Then again, his words, at most, are meant to explain forceful action. That’s how Putin seized leadership from America.”
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