Why do ppl side with Turkey and ISIS on here? Russia are our allies against ISIS. Hindering Russia = hindering our objective to destroy ISIS
Amen!
Turkey has been buying ISIS oil, allowing ISIS to flow into Syria and providing Artillery support in some cases.
We should tell Turkey you are on your own on this one.
Turkey clearly fired the first shot.
I don't think Russia is anyone's ally here. Russia is out for Russia's sake. Period.
Russia is Assad’s ally. Only a fool or a dupe would believe Russia is there in support of Western values, goals and sense of international accountability.
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It is hard to believe some folks here side with zero and the terrorists. I'm with Putin on this fight.
Because FR has a contingent of liberals that for some reason avoid lightning.
The United States (Obama as CIC) is on the side of ISIS.
Not me. This is what the Founding Fathers called "an entangling alliance." The Turks have been using and abusing NATO more than participating in it since Erdogan took power.
Russia is not an ally here they are Assad’s ally. Russia is out for itself. Obama has lied about what his goals in Syria are so most do not understand who he is actively helping. Neither are the good guys. None of this is going anywhere good.
Because they are either Muslims themselves or have an ethnic hatred of Russians because they are Baltics or some such. There maybe a few McCain supporters in that mix as well. They rather be in bed with ISIS if it means Russia loses.
Probably for the same reasons people here are lining up with Putin and his apocalyptic Mullah friends. They feel they have to choose a side.
The reality is, there are no good guys. There are only madmen, intent on unleashing the most catastrophic war in human history and remaking the world to their specifications out of that chaos.
“Why do ppl side with Turkey and ISIS on here? Russia are our allies against ISIS. Hindering Russia = hindering our objective to destroy ISIS”
Turkey is our actual ally, for better or (mostly) worse; and Russia did not enter Syria to fight Isis. We clearly don’t have a strategic “objective” to destroy Isis, or we’d have done it already. Pulling for the Russians to accidently accomplish something our own government is mostly ignoring is a bit pathetic. And Russia has been routinely violating the airspace of NATO countries and finally stepped over the line with the craziest of them. IF Russia overflew Turkey again after being warned repeatedly formally and informally, then they can’t claim to be a victim here. I take Turkey’s word for it on the location of Russian aircraft given the fact that they’re using our equipment to do the tracking.
According to our leader ISIS is contained and we need to worry about importing poor refugees.
They are actually both allied enemies: Turkey and ISIS, as well as Russia and Iran. More broadly, it’s Sunni vs. Shia.
Really, you can pick your poison here, though the classic position is to want to keep them wrestling, below a real danger level, with each other.