".Unfortunately, Putin is becoming ever more desperate for a symbolic win to give the cameras closure, aiming to spin a “victory” for Russia’s domestic audience to shore up his regime - at the cost of thousands of lives"
"..I have an even more ambitious wish from making these comparisons. I wish, after the end of this horrific Ukraine war, that the double standards so habitually employed by the United States and Western Europe will suffer a severe blow."
"Apart from the diplomatic effort in the international arena and through the Astana process, Tehran also has a number of options on the ground to increase pressure on the US in northeast Syria. "
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