Russia's airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations challenge US leadership in the new multipolar world, the chairman of the Serbian political movement Dveri told Sputnik. Svetlana Alexandrova — Bosko Obradovic stressed that deviations from the established unipolar world order would give small countries like Serbia hope that events like those seen in 1999, when the United States launched a bombing campaign with its NATO allies against Serbia, would not happen again. "Russian military operation against ISIS in Syria is a watershed event and a geopolitical revolution as no one can deny the fact of Russia's growing political influence and its lead in a new multipolar world order and the dusk of the US monopoly on geopolitics," Obradovic said. Obradovic stressed that "the Russian operation in Syria is fully justified" as Moscow began the airstrikes following a request from Syrian President Bashar Assad. "Just a few days of the Russian military action have delivered much more tangible results than the US-led operation," he said. The US-led coalition of 62 nations has been conducting airstrikes in Syria since September 2014 without the approval of the UN Security Council or the Syrian government. Since the beginning of the air campaign last week, the Russian Aerospace Forces have killed over 300 militants, and destroyed command centers, training camps and ammunition depots. Russian warships in the Caspian Sea have also fired 26 cruise missiles on ISIS targets.
