Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, the world has watched as Russia’s military has allegedly violated the laws of war by targeting civilian infrastructure with indiscriminate bombings. The Kremlin has used similar tactics in Syria when Moscow intervened in 2015 to bolster the regime of Bashar al Assad. Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, and Mona Yacoubian, senior advisor at the US Institute of Peace (USIP), spar over the points of convergence and divergence regarding Russia’s malign actions in Syria and Ukraine with host Carol Castiel.