Bumping "Seizthecarp" to this response too.
Putin has had Obama pegged from the start. He knows Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood ("Muzzie-Bro") Muslim. What is lost in the discussion was the rising Muslim influence and presence in the Crimea situated as it is directly across the water from Turkey.
That said, I do not defend Putin's strategy in Ukraine, and there is no value in Russia saber-rattling at other EU states. However, Putin's got a huge Muzzie problem on his doorstep and in his Chechen under flank, and Isis is every bit as intent upon reeking havoc in Moscow as they are in NYC.
As recently as last year Russia was feeding us intelligence on the Boston Marathon bombers that Obama's "Homeland Security" refused to act upon. Russia should be a natural ally working with the US against Isis (as should China as it pertains to their own Muzzie rebel Western-China separatist problems), but because Obama is a Muzzie and that, along with the West's faggot-o-decadence, he refuses to do anything about terrorism in the US, why should Putin care what the US has to say about anything. He's got his own country to worry about.
Putin stepped in and looked like a hero last winter, as you say, defending Christian territory and removing the chemical weapons and gas. Obama is the Muzzie that Putin knows he is (as well as Muzzie Bro-hood all the way) -- fact is this -- who ever the groups of rebels are that are aligned with Muzzie-Bro is who O-boy is going to support.
The gassings were a huge PR blunder for Assad, yet Assad was using them to kill both "moderate rebels" (whatever that is supposed to mean per John McCain) as well as Isis insurgents. Notice that Assad's air force isn't being decimated by ours, because Obama wants to drop that force right into the hands of Muzzie Bro rebels unharmed every bit as much as he tried to make Egypt's Muzzie-Bros beneficiaries of US F-16s. When we waste $2MM rocket on a pick up truck one at a time, and bomb buildings no one is even in, it is clearly all for show.
GHWBush effectively wiped out the well armed and well trained Iraqi Republican Guard incursion into Kuwait in the space of 60 days in 1991 and but for the Saudi's objections he could have gone straight to Baghdad (but the Saudi's still wanted the counterbalance of Saddam Hussein against Iran). So why then will it take 30 years to wipe out the lesser able al-Queda and Isis, unless the goal is to perpetuate the Muzzie Brotherhood "moderate rebel" aligned factions -- regardless of whether you actually even get rid of Isis??
FReegards!
