What a load of nonsense, they want to protect their military assets already in the country, nothing else.
Their is nothing remotely Christian about Putin and his gangsters. They are about as evil as you can get, no better than the terrorists and just as much as a long term threat.
Putin may not be Christian but he knows that Russia is the historic protector of orthodoxy in the Moslem lands. Also he knows that Shia fanatics are a lesser evil to Sunni fanatics. We should also realise that and stop supporting Saudi Arabia in its aim to recreate the Sunni caliphate