Klein, Joshua
This month Russia has completed an integrated air defense system in Syria that has a wide target range covering Turkey, Israel and a considerable amount of the Mediterranean Sea. An agreement signed in Moscow last fall ensured that Russian and American planes were to fly well away from each other, however with the still ongoing Russian siege on Aleppo and failure to take any diplomatic actions towards resolution has made the United States leery and skeptical about Russian credibility. This air defense system has made the US one step closer from the seemingly inevitable confrontation in Syria.
Tension between Russia and America are far past comfortable. The United State of America has remained rather passive against Russia's audacious actions; the Russian Annexation of Crimea was an action that was almost unpreventable from Ukraine's side, and I would compare it to the bureaucratic manipulation of that in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) used to continue on their never ending land conquests. Even though it seems like the United States should make some more serious attempts to oppose these actions, it is a risky situation; the United States and Russia can not get interlocked in any direct conflict due to MAD*. I think what we are seeing is possibly the beginning of another proxy war like the one we saw during the Cold War(Vietnam, Korea).
*Mutually Assured Destruction. To put it simply: this term is referring to the fact that both America and Russia posses a large Nuclear arsenal, and in turn can not confront each other or the results would devastating. When this kind of dynamic was achieved between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics we entered a time period which was know as the Cold War for it was not a “hot war” where nation would fight directly, but cold in that they confronted each other economically, politically and even sometimes indirectly through military action (Vietnam, Korea).
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