[amorphous]

The crowd is chanting “We won’t bow down” as Saudi jets circle over head #Sanaa #Yemen

https://twitter.com/GissiSim/status/766914266423328768?lang=en

The Saudis bombed very near this crowd at the video linked above.

[M Kehoe]

Nature abhors a vacuum. 0bama and his regime have created a vacuum. Putin and Russia will fill it.

So will the Chicoms in the east.

This regime’s foreign policy has been a disaster. From Tunisia through Libya to Egypt and Syria. Isolate Israel, and give nukes to the Persian mullahs. All according to plan.

And none dare call it treason .

5.56mm

[mrsmith]

“the ex-strongman may lack the clout to implement such an offer”
Indeed...

Nonetheless Russia certainly has motivation to be China’s catspaw in the Middle East. IE: Chinese money.
And China can profit financially from a stable Middle East.

The West, OTOH, no longer has money to invest or reason to do so.

[ryderann]

How soon will Putin tell Obama that US ships have to go around the Cape of Good Hope?

[Navy Patriot]

Yemen Offers Russia Use Of Its Airports And Ports In "Fight Against Terrorism"

Where the Russians go, Saudi's ask permission to fly.

[Cronos]

I don't see anything wrong with the Shias and Sunnis fighting. The USA has no dog in this fight.

The Ayatollahs don't have nukes and if they did, they would be targeted by the Pakis (who already have the Islamicnuclerbombs)

[Tommyjo]

Iran has now reversed the decision to let the Russians use their airbase.

"A week after allowing Russian planes to fly bombing runs into Syria from a base inside its borders, Iran reversed course on Monday and withdrew permission for the flights, complaining that the Kremlin had been too public about the arrangement. The about-face and the explanation for it from Iran’s Foreign Ministry seemed to surprise Russia, where state news media had been trumpeting the deal as a sign of a growing friendship with Iran."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/world/middleeast/iran-russia-syria.html