Why is the us acting afraid of russia over Iran and syria?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Maybe because it is. It cannot economically or diplomatically afford to follow through on an official war with Syria, Iran and Russia all simultaneously. It is struggling to service its debt, why would it want to run head on into another wall with countries that are not easily defeatable? Remember, US led NATO could not even defeat a poverty stricken N.Korea and it could not even win against a military worm like Vietnam, how is it now going to defeat Syria, Iran and Russia? Especially when it hasn't even completed its job in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan?

Answer 2

Western power structure create all terrorist group like Al Qaeda, Taliban and now Takfiries and Isis and they make lots of films and advertisment against Islam because they want to increase Islamophobia. Islamophobia (or anti-Muslim sentiment) is a term for prejudice against,hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam or Muslims.The term entered into common English usage in 1997 with the publication of a report by the Runnymede Trust condemning negative emotions such as fear, hatred, and dread directed at Islam or Muslims. While the term is now widely used, both the term itself and the underlying concept have been criticized.The causes and characteristics of Islamophobia are still debated.Some scholars have defined it as a type of racism. Some commentators have posited an increase in Islamophobia resulting from the September 11 attacks, while others have associated it with the increased presence of Muslims in secular nations

Answer 2

The answer to this question depends on what the questioner is trying to get at.

(1) Why does the US disagree with the Russian approach in Iran and Syria?

Generally speaking, the US argument against Assad and for the Free Syrian Army is Assad's repressive character against his own people. While ISIL engages in routine brutality, e.g. numerous executions, slavery, etc., Assad does chemical attacks and larger scale massacres, just with a longer pause between these events. The US cannot in good conscience support one evil over the other. As a result, the US has tried to support the Free Syrian Army in order to put down Assad. On the question of Iran, the US government argues that Iran's nuclear program is really a front for a nuclear weapons program and is very hesitant of trusting and aligning with Iran.

Conversely, Russia wants to keep Assad in power because Russia has no objections to Assad's authoritarian measures and has agreements with Assad to maintain naval ports in coastal Syria. This view, which runs completely counter what the US wants in the region. The Russians are also far less worried about a nuclear Iran than the US is because Russia is rather sure that those weapons would not be targeting it or its allies. Russia also sees Iran as an amenable ally against the US-Israel-Sunni coalition in the Middle East.

(2) Why is the US acting much weaker on the international stage, especially as concerns engaging Russia?

Obama as a President values the idea that the United States should not be the guarantor and arbiter of world politics. He believes that the US is one of the largest threats to world peace and, therefore, wishes to scale back the US footprint in the world. Leaders of other secondary powers like Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are more than willing to step into the void left by a departure of a powerful America from the world stage. This decline in US presence in the Middle East and this increase of Russian presence in the Middle East to compensate reads as if the US were afraid of Russia.