A four-minute analysis outlining how Washington’s retreat from support for Syria’s insurgency is far from the end of the story — France, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are all stepping up their backing of the opposition, with the Saudis ramping up arms supplies to the insurgents:
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Scott Lucas
Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.
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