LOCK HER UP!
ISIS is nothing more than the fusion of Zarqawi’s al Tawhid, Krekar’s Ansar group, and Saddam Hussein Gen. al Duri’s followers, under a common name. These groups have been working together with Russia’s ally Syria’s support since at least 2002 ... and Syria was repaid for its support when they started shipping oil from ISIS-held oilfields in Iraq that it captured after we precipitously withdrew under Obama... ISIS shipped its oil through Syria’s port city with Assad’s full knowledge to get it to market for cash. So no, ISIS was NOT “created recently” by the US to promote a gas pipeline- it’s been supplying oil to the market all along.
The Russians and Iran push that “US created ISIS for a pipeline” theory, which is false. If we wanted a pipeline through there all that need be done is offer Assad a cut of the profits... but Russia and Iran won’t allow that, both of which need Syria far more than anyone else does.