After sending its air force to the ME in
October 2015, Russia does not approve only its military supremacy in the region
but also gradually advances its territorial enlargement.
After latest changes in
the constitution, Russia has been becoming an post-modern nation state which
does not depend on the borders but on communities/ ethnicities/ nations. According
to article 65- in accepted in 2001 “Accession
to the Russian Federation and formation of a new subject of the Russian
Federation within it shall be carried out as envisaged by the federal
constitutional law.” The law based on the article says any mutual agreement
initiated by the foreign state allows to federation to admit a new
subject. In 2014, they accepted a bill
that allows Russia admits any subdivision where state loses its
sovereignty. Russia enforced latter bill
for Crimea. Thus, Russia has paved the way for its geographic expanses.
As for Syria; Turkey
drowned Russian war plane after it violated its borders several times that gave
Russia to start an international propaganda against Turkey where has been an significant
actor in Syria since the uprising started in 2011. It is clear that Russia
wants Turkey to stay in its borders and Syrian leader Bashar Asad take control
in Syria again.
If Russia is not able to
keep Asad in the office and Syria as one entity, I expect that Russia will annex a part of Syria by getting an agreement
with Asad.
