Russia in Syria: 1 year later

[goldenequity]

Russia in Syria: 1 year later

 

[jllundqu]

Blows me away that the simple fact that Syria is a sovereign government and absent a declaration of war, the US has ZERO authority to operate there without request from Assad, as was the case with Russia...

They're gonna get us all killed.

 

[dean.engelhardt]

I still don't have a good understand behind the politics of the Syrian war. Is it safe to say that the US is angry at Russia for fighting ISIS and Al-Qaida? America spent so much time and money creating the bad guys, are we mad another country is using them for war?

 

[jllundqu]

I still don't have a good understand behind the politics of the Syrian war. Is it safe to say that the US is angry at Russia for fighting ISIS and Al-Qaida? America spent so much time and money creating the bad guys, are we mad another country is using them for war?

Basically the US is attempting to overthrow Assad, ala Libya etc... US backs ISIS and Al Qaeda with weapons (smuggled from Libya: see Benghazi) and $$$. Assad is a strategic and historic ally of Russia. Putin will not allow the West to overthrow Assad and hand Syria over to the islamist jihadis. Putin will not lose his naval port nor risk NATO encroaching even further toward the motherland. Putin and Assad have basically said "This far and no further"... It is a proxy war by every definition and there is a growing risk that it becomes an overt hot war shortly as things deteriorate.

Assad was on the verge of falling to ISIS and the rebels and Putin brought his air force and turned the tide of the war, much to the chagrin of the West and its puppets.

 

[dean.engelhardt]

Basically the US is attempting to overthrow Assad, ala Libya etc... US backs ISIS and Al Qaeda with weapons (smuggled from Libya: see Benghazi) and $$$. .

This is going to be the Iraq war on steroids. I wonder if we know how much we have spent supporting the other side of the war on terror?

 

[Jan2017]

US wanted regime change in Syria . . . geopolitical games that remind me of this scene from Three Days of the Condor