Carsten Wieland, an associate at the PRIO Middle East Center, who has served as an advisor to the UN on Syria, contributes a comprehensive blog post in which he draws parallels between Russia’s approaches in Syria and Ukraine. Wieland argues that there is much to learn from these similar playbooks of warfare. Not only is Syria in many ways a precursor to Ukraine, it has also served as a testing ground for Russian power and strategies, politically, diplomatically and militarily.
Today the two conflict arenas are intimately connected. Russia’s unscrupulous methods in Syria bodes badly, not only for Ukraine, argues Wieland, but also for the binding force of key norms of international law, the UN as an institution and for the future of the multilateral order.
Read the full PRIO blog post: Putin's Blood Trail From Syria to the Ukraine here
