you dont think putin will have his eyes on Iraq down the road?
i dont know. depends on how serious he is about crushing ISIS, i guess.
Terrorism is just a cover story for Putin taking over the middle east to control world oil and gas like OPEC did.
What is killing Russia and Iran right now is $45/BBL oil. As long as the Saudis keep pumping, and the economy continues to suck globally, the price is going to remain there or go lower.
To reverse the price trend, they need to invade Saudi Arabia. In the 80’s, the Russians tried to do just this, as they were on the verge of collapse then too. They had the choice of military adventurism or collapse.
Had Reagan not bogged them down in Afghanistan, they’d have made it to SA too.
This time, however, they don’t need to go through Afghanistan. Why do that when they can stabilize Assad, move their forces into eastern Syria and pour through southern Iraq on their way to the northern frontier of SA.
They will get plenty of help form the Persians too. The Iranians will be the ones invading Mecca. No way they allow the Russians to do it.
This idiot at Time magazine thinks people actually care about what is going on in Syria. The ONLY people who care are the ones who need to land and house and invasion force there against the Saudis.
This is why the ‘Death to America’ chanting in Iran has stopped. Now they are chanting, ‘Death to the House of Saud’.
The press is a bunch of checker players commenting on a chess tournament.