Comic: Syria
Syriana
The United States and its allies have been pressuring Russia (and China) to condemn Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, who has tried to brutally suppress a popular uprising — spawned by the "Arab spring" protests — that is threatening to turn into a full-blown civil war.
Russia sees U.S. and Western interference in the affairs of post-Soviet satellite states as further encroachment on its political and economic spheres of influence, and has resisted calls to take a hard line against its ally.
Roberto De Vido is a communications consultant, writer, cartoonist and jack of many trades. The former chief of Tucson Sentinel’s East Asia Bureau, he now lives in California (make of that what you will).