'This is a major world event': The Syrian war is now fueling a 'global cold war'

One day after launching a campaign of airstrikes in Syria, Russia announced that it is considering going into Iraq.

A foreign ministry representative said Thursday that Russia would consider any request from Iraq to conduct anti-ISIS airstrikes in the country, and Iraqi President Haider al-Abadi told Western news outlets that Russian airstrikes were "a possibility" and that Iraq would "welcome it."

"Our message to the Russians — I met with Putin — please join this fight against Daesh," Abadi told PBS NewsHour. Daesh is another name for ISIS.

"Daesh is a dangerous terrorist organization, not only against Iraq, against Syria, against the whole region, against the whole world. It is time that we all join the same forces to fight Daesh."

This escalation signifies a "fundamental shifting of the balance of power in the Middle East," Ali Khedery, the longest continuously serving American official in Iraq, told Business Insider in an interview.

Khedery called the Russian strikes a "major world event" and compared the country's actions to the formation of the Axis Alliance leading up to World War II.

"Now, an alliance really is consolidating and formalizing," Khedery said. "There is now a Shia axis locked in combat across Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. I expect an expansion of the conflict in the months and years ahead. This has the potential to escalate into a regional war, a holy war, and global cold war."

It's a SAD DAY indeed when a Godless Soviet Communist Atheist like Putin ...
Fights to WIN against the Satanic Islamic Hordes ...

Putin is picking up where American foreign policy left off prior to the current administration. If we aren't going to do it, I'm glad someone else is doing it.

But the Demo Party has been taken over by radicals. The radicals goals are different than you think. The American dollar is being destroyed right before our eyes by irresponsible policies that are beyond comprehension. These nutty actions have a foundation with the leftists of old but now it’s beyond insane. The American military is being used in ways that are also insane. They are stationed all over the world and withdrawn from areas where they would prevent Muslim terrorists from gaining power and put in harms way for reasons Americans have no comprehension. In every action that Hussein is involved in from Obamacare to planned parenthood to race relations, he is on the side of those planning America’s demise. If a terrorist supporting traitor was elected to be President, he would do exactly the same things Hussein Obama is doing. Hussein Obama came from obscurity with no record of accomplishment and a pedigree that was sealed so that Americans could not even see the courses he took in college much less the grades he made. By the time you figure out WHO Hussein Obama is and how he became President by fraud and deceit, your relatives will be dying in terrorist attacks in schools, workplaces and shopping places in neighborhoods across the country. The Muslims have millions who want to kill Americans and Hussein is working overtime to get them into the country before his insane treason is stopped. Americans really are the biggest fools in history.

I kept looking for the best part of your post to cut and paste and respond to. Your statements are all exactly where I am so when I hear Rubio say that the other side is "stuck in the past" I go nuts. This paddy cake treatment of insane leftists by the GOPe is.... words fail me.

Never thought there’d be a day when we’d be cheering on a Russian president while disgusted with our own

Things are going well for Hussein, America's first Muslim President. By starting WW III in the middle east, he can kill hundreds of millions in the west as we fight each other.

Then the Muslims can clean up and enslave the west under Islam. Submit to Islam, or they will kill the survivors too.

Most Americans suspect Hussein Obama is a Muslim traitor but they will NOT do anything about it until it's too late.

Open Borders

Oppressive taxes such as Obamacare

Attacks on the American economy most significantly the EPA shutting down coal electric production to drive up costs through the roof

Releases terrorists from GITMO with barely a wimper from the press

ETC

When is it too late? When the bombs start going off in schools and malls near where you live.

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