How did FM Larvov make that catastrophic preference to fan a Iranian fires of the Shiite juggernaut? Lavrov made two deadly errors. First, Lavrov suspicion he was Foreign Minister of a waxing Soviet Union Empire instead of Foreign Minister of a loss Russian Republic. Second, meditative he was a FM of a Soviet Union, Lavrov incorrectly worked brazen and suspicion of expanding his self-existent Soviet sovereignty using infinite resources that do not exist anymore. Lavrov should have initial asked himself where the comprehensive red line imprinting the strategic interests of a small Russian Republic is ,and then worked retrograde from there.
What was, and is, Russia’s one and usually red-line vital seductiveness in a eastern Mediterranean? The answer is a trans-Greece-Cyprus Christian Eastern Orthodox arc. Why? Because practically, Cyprus/Greece is a Russian Oligarchs’ “back-door” to a EU’s financial system, and to a EU itself. Russia shares a low eremite and domestic synergy with Greece. So, it’s a healthy relationship.
Strategically, a Greece-Cyprus topological Mediterranean Sea arc protects Russia’s Black Sea entrance by Turkey’s Dardanelles, a Sea of Marmara, and a Bosphorus to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. If there was an Ottoman Turkish troops putsch by Cyprus and over a Greek Aegean islands, all bets would be off for a standing of a Montreux Convention per Russia’s authorised thoroughfare by a Turkish Straits. A Greek Orthodox vital Mediterranean fall would be a ultimate vital and irrevocable disaster of a Russian Republic.
So operative retrograde from a unaccompanied vital idea of safeguarding a Greek Orthodox Greece/Cyprus Mediterranean arc, Russia’s best vital movement would have been to allow a splintered cracked Syria with conjunction Turkey nor Iran in an confirmed extended position. And as a corollary, Russia needs Israel as a comprehensive and strenuous Eastern Mediterranean troops energy behaving as the in situ sequence of conflict and sensitively safeguarding Israel’s Levant Basin gas-partner, Greek Cyprus.
Predictably, what hath FM Lavrov wrought to Putin and Russia in Syria? The accurate conflicting of a splintered ineffectual enervated Syria! Russia’s entrance into Syria has, to the north, emboldened Turkey into a neo-Ottoman Empire campaign, and to a east, has metastasized Iran into a trans-regional behemoth that laughs during Russia as it commits genocidal war-crimes opposite a Sunnis.
When one goes to nap with dogs, one wakes adult with fleas. When Lavrov and Putin went to nap with a genocidal militant state of Iran, Lavrov and Putin woke adult with war-crime referrals.
In conclusion, Putin and Russia’s best march of movement is to concede America and Israel to purify adult a disaster Lavrov has done of Syria. Lavrov keeps aloud seething about a significance of a “territorial integrity” of Syria, when he should be sensitively enabling a territorial destruction of Syria.
It is in a best interests of Russia to concede America and Israel to destroy Iranian and Hezbollah resources in Syria and Lebanon as fast and totally as they can. Russia’s ultimate vital seductiveness in safeguarding Cyprus, and Russia’s entrance to universe banking and a Mediterranean Sea depend on it.