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Joan Maloof is the author of Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest. She teaches biology and environmental issues at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA.
With an economy the size of South Korea’s and military capabilities that are no match for America's, Russia lacks the tools required to act as an uncontested hegemon in the Middle East. When the United States decides to take up the mantle of democracy and peace again, Russia will be no match for it.
