Russia will grow wealthier, more powerful, more aggressive in their overall expansionist agenda (Eastern Europe, eventually elsewhere), and much more of a threat to the US and its allies throughout the region and the world.
Sure it’s great IF they actually do get rid of ISIS (we shall see). But having a country like Russia step in and gain such huge strategic advantage over the US and its allies is nothing we should be cheering about.
If Obama was serious about wanting to take out ISIS, which I don’t believe he ever was—I think him and Putin are actually in cahoots on this whole thing despite his and Kerry’s public moans and groans about it, it might not ever have come to this. But then Russia would likely have come up with some other rationale or excuse for moving into Syria and taking control of it, and ultimately the entire Middle East. Makes me wonder if ISIS was a KGB-like invention of the Russians, created to give them cover for expanding.
Putin has stated that he believes the demise of the (mass-murdering, communist [my words]) Soviet Union was the "worst geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century". He has also said he thinks Stalin deserves to have statues in his honor. He clearly seeks to restore the old Soviet Union, or something not too far different from it.
"Russia moving in under the pretense of ridding the region of ISIS is like the Mafia moving to your neighborhood under the pretense of moving out a violent street gang, then setting up a permanent base there to do Mob “business”.However, I do not think that Obama and Putin are in cahoots about this."Russia will grow wealthier, more powerful, more aggressive in their overall expansionist agenda (Eastern Europe, eventually elsewhere), and much more of a threat to the US and its allies throughout the region and the world.
"Sure it’s great IF they actually do get rid of ISIS (we shall see). But having a country like Russia step in and gain such huge strategic advantage over the US and its allies is nothing we should be cheering about.
Putin is seizing an enormous advantage as the United States and the other Western nations sink deeper and deeper in a quagmire of decadence, self-destruction, mass insanity, and mass cultural suicide. As they abandon their positions of power and influence in the world, Putin sees not only the opportunity to expand Russia's power to fill the power-vacuum, but also the necessity to do so, because, if he doesn't, some other power--e.g. China, ISIS, Iran, or something else--will; so he really doesn't have a choice.
If the Americans are going to succumb to mass insanity and suicide--and they seem determined to do exactly that!--someone or something is going to seize power over them and the rest of the world. Vladimir Putin is positioning himself to be the one to do it. From his point of view, why would he allow anyone else to do it?