“I’m not sure how much Putin will be able to spend on his world awakening.”
Yeh Putey is pretty deep into his egg money in the Ukraine misadventure. But hey I’m with Trump let him help fight ISIS and the Syrian rebels. If Assad gets overthrown we are talking the usual; mullahs and sharia law. I vote to keep Assad.
If Putin goes bankrupt fighting in Syria then hey its all good. :-)
Yup. For some reason, Many here want America to be world cop while bitching how broke we are. Some people don’t seem to see the inherent problem with America acting like the British Empire.
We have NO business there that cannot be fixed via B-52 if it comes to that. Short of another 9/11, let them fight their own wars and we need to stay on our side of the pond.
Why would it cost Putin anything? All he is saying is DON’T export the revolutions in this fantasy idea that the nations will become Jeffersonian democracies. Not starting something is cheaper than dirt.
“Yeh Putey is pretty deep into his egg money in the Ukraine misadventure.”
Not sure where people get that from.
The Russians are largely supplying the rebels in Ukraine from existing inventory that has been sitting in bunkers and warehouses for 30-50 years. The cost to them is minimal, in the big picture.
The same for Syria.
It’s easy to forget that the are sitting on top of the biggest (and aging) arsenal the planet has ever known, or could even comprehend.
Just the stuff they left behind in Ukraine, which became the world’s largest arms bazaar, has fueled every insurgency and war for the last two decades.
It’s only been within the last couple of weeks that “Modern” Russian equipment has shown up in Syria.