With the new boss in town, potentially good news for the Palestinians. Russia considers status quo on Palestine unacceptable — Putin http://tass.ru/en/politics/890417 Good cause for hope I'd say, with the USA in its financial death throws, all players in the middle east will be looking to the Kremlin for political alliance, "legitimacy" as well as protection - Israel will presumably continue to want Russia's protection for the Leviathan oil basin in the mediterranean sea, Turkey has well and truly begun its rapprochement with Russia and will undoubtedly benefit from 'Turk stream' pipelin into Europe, and the Saudi's now have a major roadblock to any "aunti imperial" regime change operations they have lusted over until now (stalemate in the desperately poor Yemen has turned to the Yemenis now fighting back -into- Saudi Arabia (from what I hear, old Yemeni lands that were "given" to Saudi Arabia when Yemen was at its absolute weakest and was otherwise being land raped by the Saudi's and their Western supporters)). All in all, extremely positive (/ militarily stable) situations developing all over the place. Courtesy Russia. Putin has the remainder of his current term in office and undoubtedly one more term after this - here's truly hoping that Russia's subsequent leader is at least half as functional re world affairs. The only major caveat of course, is an overly hawkish USA president at the upcoming North American federal elections. And, unfortunately, this is a bloody big caveat! I hope that the Eurasion alliances now forming, some mentioned above, become strong enough in the next 2 months in the case that Hitlery Clinton gets elected. Another reminder of the nature of "the West"/ very recent European history (mostly polemic, not much history): The West has raped, killed and destroyed the whole world http://www.pravdareport.com/world/americas/25-07-2016/135116-war_with_russia... Good luck, little old world..