on the chessboard are moving.
I know this much.
If your end time prophecy isn't about Jerusalem?
It's all wrong.
"The fast-shifting geopolitical sands have already handed huge territorial gains to the pro-Moscow Assad government who opportunistically forged a new alliance with US-abandoned Kurds over the weekend.
The unfolding events in northern Syria come after Moscow stayed the course with its ally Assad despite international criticism and sanctions, leaving it as the only force willing and able to protect the Syrian Kurds from a Turkish onslaught. With the US withdrawal increasingly seen as a betrayal of the Kurds, it is the Russians who look like the only reliable allies in this fight.
It was against this backdrop that Putin toured the capitals of two key Gulf states -- the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and Saudi Arabia on Monday.
You think this all wasn't planned out well in advance?
"Speaking after the meeting, King Salman said he appreciated "Russia's effective role in the region and around the world," according to remarks reported by Saudi state media.
The statement underlines that this state visit was a well-timed diplomatic coup, placing Putin at the center of the region's geopolitics.
It's what Putin has been pushing for all along."
Oh this, access to control the Bosporus straight, lots of things.
"But criticism and concern about US commitment to the region is causing Saudi Arabia to look elsewhere, perhaps to more reliable and less judgmental friends.
The "days of a single strategic partner for the kingdom," one senior Saudi official told me, "are already gone".
And just like in northern Syria, Russia is ready and willing to step in.
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