[usconservative]

Many Russian analysts maintain that Russia's intervention in Syria is driven by Vladimir Putin’s desire to reinstate the status of the world's largest nation as a superpower and his genuine belief that the United States has deliberately seeded chaos in the region to secure its reign there.

I've seen plenty of twisted logic in my day, but this one pretty much takes the cake. Foment chaos in which tens of thousands of Christians and others die/are killed/persecuted/crucified and somehow that secures the Middle East for the United States.

WTF??!!

[Pining_4_TX]

I would say it is the result of US screwing up in the Middle East. Removing dictators and hoping the primitives in those countries would become freedom loving, tolerant people was a colossal error. As far as I can tell, Assad is one of the few sane people left in the Middle East and is certainly no worse than the rabble that wants to depose him.

There is no good side there.

[uncommonsense]

You either interpret the US actions as intentional or gross incompetence on a scale never demonstrated by US leaders. Germany thought it impossible that US leadership would remove Patton from his command for slapping a cowardly solder, but that was the real story. You must admit that the mess looks pretty deliberate.

[tcrlaf]

“Foment chaos in which tens of thousands of Christians and others die/are killed/persecuted/crucified and somehow that secures the Middle East for the United States.
WTF??!! “

Welcome to the Age of Obama.
Have you not been paying attention?

[lavaroise]

Putin has long plaid this game. The second war in Chechnya, he allowed foreign extremists in so as to make illegitimate the genuine freedom seeking Chechens.

Also everyone forgets that Assad propped IsIs initially for the same reasons