PS 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Governorates Of Syria, Military Aircraft, Mikhail Gorbachev
13 Nov 2018
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Russia"s overall objective is to remain a strong and vigilant international power while it sees western countries attempting to undermine it on the global stage revolution. The us sees itself as spreading democracy, russia views it as promoting. There is a belief in the kremlin that if russia does not play a great-power role in areas of vital interest like the middle east, it will be nothing". Russia is always trying to match the us moves in terms of power. The objective of this is to force the us to treat russia as a great power and give it. Because the us will not do this (prior to trump) russia feels the need to legitimacy combat any potential gain of us power in important arenas such as the middle east. It finds partners to balance the us power. Russia also has an interest in preventing conflict between arab states and.
