Deluded tyrant in Moscow comes to aid of deluded tyrant in Damascus
Here is my essay about Russia's stepped-up intervention in the Syrian civil war for the ABC's The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-05/mccann-russias-syria-success-could-quickly-turn-to-failure/6828220
And this is a piece I wrote three years ago about Vladimir Putin, "The Deluded Tyrant in the Kremlin": http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/06/deluded-tyrant-in-the-kremlin/
