You know . . . Russia ends up benefitting from the conflict, thousands of Russian troops in the region, renewed power regionally . . . and sidelining Turkey whose influence was increasing.
Sorry, is this another issue you 'don't care about'?
You know . . . Russia ends up benefitting from the conflict, thousands of Russian troops in the region, renewed power regionally . . . and sidelining Turkey whose influence was increasing.
Sorry, is this another issue you 'don't care about'?
Agree with Sabang. Where would we be without Putin supporting such wonderful leaders of democracy as Lukashenko and Assad. Still, birds of a feather I suppose.
Lukashenko is his pet clown. It is well known that Vlad holds him in contempt. As for Assad the Optometrist, imo you should be grateful he won. If the likes of Isis & AQ had taken over- well, you reckon Europe has refugee problems now?
Presumably, that is not what you would want?
The only reason IS emerged in Syria is because he stayed in power with Putin's backing in the few areas he controlled, and bombed the shit out of everyone else.
Desperate people will turn to anyone for help.
Had Putin not kept him in power, the Sunni majority in Syria would have had free and fair elections for the first time in decades and elected a stable representative government.
You really know nothing about the Middle East but your russian propaganda soundbites, do you?
The next post may be brought to you by my little bitch Spamdreth
Considering your spectacular record of being utterly wrong about everything geopolitical 'arry, I would just sulk in silence if I were you.
Feeble ad hom response to a 100% accurate post, sabang.
Has Switch been coaching you?
Erm, IS was founded in Iraq because of the American invasion. Seriously, what kinda dumb am I dealing with here
AQ in Iraq came after the US invasion. Dick Cheney would be proud of you though.
You said ISIS was part of AQ before the US invasion. ISIS was formed in Iraq. AQ didn't exist in Iraq until after the invasion, unless you believe Dick Cheney. And Al Qaeda in Iraq (which is where ISIS arose from) is technically a different organization than Al Qaeda.
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The rise of IS in Iraq was in response to furious revenge attacks from the Shi'a majority on the Sunni minority, in a country where the central government and the military had collapsed.
The rise of IS in Syria, funnily enough, was in response to furious and unwarranted attacks from the Shi'a minority (with Putin's help) on the Sunni majority in a country where the central government and the military had collapsed.
The difference isn't too subtle, but we know sabang is too fucking thick to understand it.
Cheney has nothing to do with anything I've stated, not sure why you harp on about him . . . my response was to sabang's post
I'll just leave the sobbers to their self pity. Assad won, deal with it.
In fairness, part of the justification Bush Jr.'s administration repeatedly gave for going into Iraq was because Saddam was very matey with Al Qaeda and had met with them many times on "operational matters".
Since he rarely left Iraq at that time, the implication being that they were visiting him.
These sore loser attempts to rewrite history are as pathetic as they are ludicrous. Good ole' 'arry, larf a minute.
The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission and by declassified Defense Department reports[3] as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.[4] Critics of the Bush Administration have said Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to factual evidence. On April 29, 2007, former Director of Central IntelligenceGeorge Tenet said on 60 Minutes, "We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period."[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_link_allegations
The Lie That Won’t Die: Saddam Hussein’s “Relationship” With Al-Qaeda
https://www.theamericanconservative....with-al-qaeda/
What next- Saddam plotting 911? Buying nuclear components in the Congo?? Ya crack me up, Loser.
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