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and, these countries depend on Russian pipelines for their national income. At stake here is not merely the liberation of a vast landmass from the Kremlin's yoke. The damage to Russian leverage would amount to a seismic shift in the global balance of power equal to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Ru

lmost totally isolated and crucially weakened. That Moscow cannot allow. Why is Iran so central to Mr. Putin's global pretensions? Take a look at the Caspian Sea area map and the strategic equations come into relief. Iran acts as a southern bottleneck to the geography of Central Asia. It could offer the West

the Syrian government to forestall checkmate and p=olong stalemate. Since Putin is Russian, chess has been the go-to me=aphor for portraying recent Kremlin strategy. No surprise, then, tha= Putin's move in Syria has been hailed (by som=) as the brilliant gambit of a grandmaster. The='re wrong. It's more

hund=ed of soldiers to Syria. It has already conducted hundreds of air st=ikes. It has even launched cruise missile strikes from ships anchore= in the Caspian Sea at targets nearly a thousand miles away. The Rus=ian government claims that it is targeting the Islamic State, but many of =he air strikes appear to

angerous. Precisely because the White House recognized that the Cubans could become a wild card, it cut them out of the game. Kennedy informed the Kremlin that it would be held accountable for any attack against the United States emanating from Cuba, however it started. Today, the threat of an Israeli

t cannot last, don't. "People putting bread on the table, bearing the pressure, they have a limit," said a businessman I chatted with on a beach of the Caspian Sea. "Sooner or later, the limit will come and things will change." Insha'Allah. (God willing.) The Daily Beast Meet Prince Salman, the Next Saudi K