Cohen: France and Russia form an Alliance against fluctuating USA

The Paris terrorist attacks almost immediately led to military cooperation between France and Russia against the terrorist organization " Islamic state ", which indicates the understanding of the European policy positions of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the Syrian issue drop, American political scientist, Princeton University Professor Stephen Cohen.

in opinion of political scientist, the primacy of issues of interaction with Russia now can pass from Chancellor Angela Merkel to the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande, who, like most other countries in Europe, ceases to support the policy of U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama in his attempts to isolate the Russian Federation due to the fall in the Ukraine.

Cohen also emphasizes that Merkel may lose its primacy in the EU because of its non-productive policy on Greece, Ukraine and middle East immigrants.

"Europe seems to have started to listen to the argument of V. V. Putin that to defeat the "Islamic state" only in the amplification of Syria and its army, and that this means that the Bashar al-Assad, instead of the deprivation of his power, on which insists Washington for almost two years ", - says the analyst.

in addition, Cohen drew attention to the fact that the support of the European leaders of the Ukrainian government mired in crisis, continues to decline. After the terrorist attacks in Paris and the beginning of d?tente in the relations between Western Europe and Russia, emphasizes, even the government of David Cameron in the UK, maybe stop supporting "Pro-American" regime in Kiev.

"The consequences of the events in Paris show a decrease in the leadership of the US capital in their own Western Alliance. The U.S. does not have more ability to play the role of the sole superpower in the world, and at the same time, Russia has returned to center stage of international events, " Cohen concludes.


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