Dear CCI Followers,
Please scan the New York Times article below. Dmitri Trenin has long been the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center think tank, a position that likely has encouraged him, a former Soviet military officer, to see Russia from the American perspective. However, he’s done a great job of straddling the divide.
Trenin’s also done a service to the existing truth of today in writing this article, “Russia’s Comeback Isn’t Stopping with Syria.” One wonders if this isn’t being printed now to offset the NYT American University article on November 6 which brought much distain from readers.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Russia’s Comeback Isn’t Stopping with Syria!
Get used to it, because Russian influence is coming to a region near you.
New York Times
November 12, 2019
By Dmitri Trenin
Mr. Trenin is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
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.
Five years later, however, Russia is still resilient, despite the Western sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine. It has effectively won, militarily, in Syria: Today it is a power broker in that country; the victory has raised its prestige in the Middle East and provided material support for Moscow’s claims to be a great power again.