Post by Irina Tsukerman
A national security & human rights lawyer, Fellow @ Arabian Peninsula Institute, Fellow @ Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Board Member at The Washington Outsider Center for Information Warfare, GTSC HSToday
In my latest analysis for @Mujhar, I take a closer look at Russia’s bid to reinvent Tartus as a commercial gateway, sanctions workaround, and quietly expandable military lifeline. Moscow wants to turn declining influence into economic dependency, embedding itself in Syria’s food, energy, and trade networks while navigating Turkish dominance, Gulf-funded corridors, Emirati port ambitions, and Damascus’s dangerous balancing act. Tartus may look like a logistics hub, but Russia is building something far more durable: a foothold designed to make its presence too useful, too entangled, and too costly to remove. https://lnkd.in/eyNs7Zfp
