Спасибо большое. Прочла. У меня точно такое же мнение.Without its great protector in Moscow, the regime in Damascus would have found it far harder to depend on obstinate, brutal force alone. But with Russia’s support, it could continue to defy the rest of the world, whatever the cost to its own people.И вот это:The long-term solution in Syria may be a deal on the lines of the Dayton agreement that ended the war in  Bosnia in 1995. Many more people may have to die in Syria before we get there. But in the meantime we could at least drop our illusions about Russia. Its behaviour is not a deplorable, temporary lapse from the democratic, multilateral ideals it espoused after the collapse of communism. Its behaviour reflects the nature of the regime that rules it: kleptocratic, paranoid, vengeful and profoundly anti-Western.