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Russia's New Middle Eastern Policy: Back to Bismarck?


[ICA/JCPA] Ariel Cohen - Russia has been increasing its sales of weapons to Middle Eastern countries, as well as to rogue and semi-rogue states. Russia is using the sale of weapons and nuclear reactors today the way imperial Germany used railroads before World War One - to attract allies, bolster influence, and undermine the dominant power in the Middle East. Russia aims at becoming an alternative world superpower and is increasingly at odds with or opposed to the U.S. and the West. The writer is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
2007-03-20 01:00:00
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