O man that’s a rather uninformed statement.
Lesseee here. Afghanistan, 80s ? Chechnya, going on right now ? Islamists murdering Russian school children ? Bombings in Moscow theaters ? Subways ? The reason why Russians have such a stake in the game is because this only emboldens other islamist groups to try to carve out their chunks of Russian territory. Just as Chinese have ton of theirs.
Russians play the ME game for their own purposes. Certainly not to enable Islamists that are coming after them as well as us.
Well, do they hate islamists as much as they hate Jews?
Do they not have full diplomatic ties and business dealings with Iran?
Yep, maybe I am uninformed, please inform me.