Opinion: Why Russia protects al-Assad
The Kremlins policymakers are hardly adept on this, and certainly possibly will linger too sustained. So far, they believe al-Assad still has a reasonable try of survival. If his prospects dim the same as seems likely around minor rephrasing of the U.N. tenacity self-control likely be located as much as necessary to fill Russian concerns and bring them on board.tag on CNN view on TwitterJoin the conversation on FacebookThe opinions uttered concerning this commentary are solely individuals of Daniel Treisman.