Why doesn't he use fully trained and active duty troops?
“Wipe them out...All of them.”
And if the Raqqa oil fields get taken out in the process?
No problem, a restricted supply boosts the price, and The Rodina benefits from higher prices when it sells oil...
Hysterical blogger-type nonsense, based on fantasizing about Russia’s routine procedure for its normal military conscription.
If true where will Al Baghdadi run to? You know he’s no Travis, Bowie or Crockett. I wonder which Muslim state will give him sanctuary?
I guess Russians do a lot of the jobs lazy Americans (i.e., Obama) won’t do … just like the illegal immigrants.
Future news story:
ISIS beheads hundred of captured Russian conscripts
If you believe McCain and the WSJ, Putin can’t be allowed to to that because he might wipe-out some phony or ineffective “moderates” in the process.
If I’m counting them correctly, this will go down in history as the 10th Crusade.
http://historylists.org/events/9-crusades-into-the-holy-land.html
You cannot “wipe them out”.
It’s an ideology that is endemic in Islamic culture.
And they are reproducing at a far higher rate than Russia (or any other Western country). So you can kill many of them but there are more on the way.
ISIS or something very like it will always be a part of the picture there.
Meanwhile our wimpy-a$$ dork refuses to eliminate ISLAMIC STATE (not ISIS, not ISIL, it’s ISLAMIC STATE!).
Not that I believe that wiping them out is what his plan is but IF he could succeed in wiping them and establishing some kind of order he would gain a top position as the world leader who dispatched one of the most evil groups on earth. Something our islamic asshole in chief refused to do.
Nobody is more suited to the scorched earth, kill them all approach that will be needed to wipe them out than Putin.
This reads like nonsense, and does not correspond with any actual fact in terms of the military strategy of any known country. Spare the insults, too, since Russia is not doing anything of the sort.
The last I heard ISIS troop numbers were under 50k total, wiping them out would not be a problem for any true military committed to the effort. It won’t be pretty and a lot of innocent blood will be spilled in the process, but obliterating ISIS just requires the will to do it. Russia will not hesitate to bomb Mosques or accept civilian collateral damage to do what needs to be done.
Go Putin! Wipe all their 7th century savage a$$es out.
It is just British tabloid nonsense. Russia is conscripting 300k men every year for one year. It is a biannual event. At the same time these 150k enter another 150k are demobilized.