There are people here that are that much into defending ISIS? Putin did what Obozo should have done long ago, kill them! Please, one radical moose-limb enemy at a time.
Russia moving in under the pretense of ridding the region of ISIS is like the Mafia moving to your neighborhood under the pretense of removing a violent street gang, then setting up a permanent base there to do Mob “business”.
Russia will grow wealthier, more powerful, more aggressive in their overall expansionist agenda (Eastern Europe, eventually elsewhere), and much more of a threat to the US and its allies throughout the region and the world.
Sure it’s great IF they actually do get rid of ISIS (we shall see). But having a country like Russia step in and gain such huge strategic advantage over the US and it’s allies is nothing we should be cheering about.
If Obama was serious about wanting to take out ISIS, which I don’t believe he ever was—I think him and Putin are actually in cahoots on this whole thing despite his and Kerry’s moans and groans about it, it might not ever have come to this, although Russia would likely have come up with some other rationale or excuse for moving into Syria and taking control of it, and ultimately the entire Middle East. Makes me wonder if ISIS wasn’t a KGB-like invention of the Russians.
Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin’s opponents and heap praise on President Putin.
Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ...”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece
And there are people here who think Putin is interested in ISIS. All of the rebels who are fighting Assad are not ISIS. Putin will take them out long before he goes (and if) after ISIS. Russia is only interested in propping Assad and keeping a warm water port. I dislike Obama, but that is no reason to assign love to Putin.
Putin will go after ISIS only after defeating the anti-Assad forces that the USA supposedly supported.
Since ISIS is also against Assad, Putin will get to them once Assad’s been secured.
Mark