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Russia Watch: Kremlin crosses Russia’s Sunni Muslims by joining Syria’s Shia alliance
Vladimir Putin got out of the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland without any broken china on the floor.
In the lead up, Syria’s civil war loomed like a polarizing issue capable of turning the meeting into seven against one. But Putin checked his aggressive instincts. The Russian leader knew he will host the next G-8, in Sochi, Russia, in June 2014.
Now that Putin no longer has to try to smile for Western cameras, he can revert to form – threatening to send to Syria ship-killing and aircraft-killing missiles, and then complaining about “western interference.”