The Syrian War in Russia’s Intensifying Discourse Against the Unipolar World
Journal: Journal of International Analytics
Year: 2023

This essay examines fi ve possible reasons for Russia’s military involvement in the Syrian War. These reasons under consideration are an anti-terror policy, resistance to the unipolarity, domestic populism, overcoming Russia’s isolation after Crimea crisis, and defence of the B. Assad government. I conclude that only the anti-terror and anti-unipolar world motivations were relevant and merged into a single cognitive framework that is prone to launching Syrian military operation. Other factors, s