Putin Is Playing a Dangerous Game in Syria
The Russian president is learning that it’s much easier to get into a Middle Eastern conflict than to get out of one.
Last weekend in the Middle East, a new wave of chaos swept across the border between Israel and Syria. On Saturday, Iranian forces into Israel’s airspace. In retaliation, Tel Aviv attacked the air base near Palmyra from which it had been launched. When Syria’s anti-air systems sought to protect the Iranians, downing one Israeli F-16, they were . Russia, which intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2015 to aid President Bashar al-Assad, had advanced S-400 missile defense systems to his ally. This time, they did nothing to intervene. Moscow seemed willing to let Israel give to warn Assad against aligning
