It’s safe to say that the Russians are PISSED...
Putin to make live statement in the next few minutes.
Unconfirmed Twitter chatter says the Russians may have told the Turkish Embassy to close, and be out of the country within 24 hours.
The US does not support ISIS and never has. Only Russian trolls and their websites claim such. The intent is to ridicule the West’s efforts in order to substantiate Russia’s intervention and goals.
Turkey, Saudi and others supports ISIS. We’ve had unsuccessful discussions with the Turks regarding their cross-border support of ISIS. So it’s going to the next phase.
The Western allies are trying to protect the Kurds from ISIS, Turkey and Assad as they fight against all three.
‘The West’ has people inside Syria supporting actions against Assad and ISIS. Both of them are terrorist organizations intent on de-stabilization and regional conflict.
We are not on Turkey’s side wrt ISIS. We are on the Kurds’ and Iraq’s side to degrade and then defeat ISIS in northern Iraq.