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Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news Vladimir Putin's showmanship in Syria has left him without a strategy Today, November 7th 11:33 ·   Edward Lucas · metrojet russia assad islamism sharm el-sheikh syria vladimir putin bomb Shared by  1  person But the reckoning may be a bloody one. Russia is now firmly (and probably irrevocably) positioned as an enemy of conservative and radical Sunni Muslims. It is an ardent supporter of the Sisi regime in Egypt, which jails, tortures and executes members of the Muslim Brotherhood. And it is using air-strikes and ground troops to support the Assad regime, nominally against Isil, but in fact mostly against an array of other rebel forces. This represents a radical and dangerous shift from the Kremlin’s past policy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of intimidating non-entanglement in the Middle East. In 1985, gunmen from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia kidnapped four Sovi