The reality is that Putin has out gamed 0bama in a Geo-political game that 0bama doesn’t even realize that he is playing.
0bama is either clueless or complicate. I vote clueless.
The key was the Iran Deal.
As soon as that deal was resolved, Putin with Iran have put in motion their plan to completely take over Iraq.
The Russians will push ISIS out of Syria and restate Assad.
The Russians will continue to chase ISIS in Iraq with the help of Iran.
Iran will soon be in complete control of IRAQ.
The Saudi’s see this coming and already have their hands full dealing with the Iranian led insurgence on their border in Yemen.
This is playing out as a Sunni vs. Shiite clash that puts the US in a position of either supporting the Saudis/ISIS against Iran/Russia or Iran and the Shiite’s against the Sunnis in Saudi Arabia and ISIS.
This is a no win situation for the US and Putin has/is taking advantage of it.
Please understand, these Arabs are like the Communist in China, they really don’t care how many of their own people die along the way to achieving their goals.
Putin knows this while 0bama has no clue.
0bama has been gamed on an unprecedented scale that will go down in what is left of history as the greatest blunder or display of incompetence ever recorded.
Perfect!