We need to let it go. I want Russia to take out ISIS, and as others have said we’d be on the wrong side to defend that maker of martyrs.
Russia is not going to take out ISIS.
What they are going to do is take out any resistance to Assad. If ISIS is in the way...then so it is...but that is just regarding Syria...
In Iraq Russia appears to be working with Iraqi government. The Iraqi government has been working with Iran. What will and is going to occur there is that any US or NATO forces will be pushed out, and the Russians will protect the Shia part of the Iraqi government which would pit them against any other group the they find to be in opposition, which means the Kurds, or anyone getting in the way of Iran’s new territory.
Any Sunni’s will become refugees and likely pushed into the arms of ISIS.
I am not sure how the Saudi’s will react to all this, but it is not going to be good. Then you also have the Turks,,,and all the various “stans”.....
Since we left Afghanistan, it seems likely to me that it will once again become a haven..
It’s difficult to fight there from the air unless you just want to bounce some rocks..
BTW, ISIS has little to do with any of this except as it relates to the Iranians needs and desires..as well as Assad’s immediate needs..
Russia is involved with strategic long tern goals. Those goals all conflict with ours..and always have.