Analysis: Putin's Syria operation is a bid to regain status as major global player
Posted on AllSides October 8th, 2015
From The Left
OPINION
On Russian TV -- breathtaking video of missiles launched from Russian ships in the Caspian Sea, streaking into the night sky, racing almost a thousand miles to their targets in Syria, exploding, the reporter boasts, no more than nine feet from their targets.
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