And they are the great many who simply ignore what motivates Putin’s armed diplomacy (and not just in Syria): the desire to exact revenge on those who, in his eyes, were responsible for the Soviet Union’s downfall. Putin famously declared that the Soviet collapse was a “major geopolitical catastrophe of the [twentieth] century,” and he has never stopped blaming it on the United States, the Catholic Church (and its Polish pope), and Europe.
C’est l’ensemble de ceux que leur lâche soulagement face à l’apparition d’un « homme fort » venant imposer son ordre dans le grand jeu syrien empêche apparemment de voir que le premier effet de ses frappes massives et, au mieux, indiscriminées, sera de précipiter le flux des réfugiés venant frapper aux portes de l’Europe.