Why people think this thug Putin is so great escapes me. Less than 30% of Russian hits are on ISIS targets. Putin us propping up a Baathist NAZI dictator in Syria who is killing his own people. Putin’s friends, the Iranians ( also Obama’s new friends) are backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen who took over our embassy there. Putin is taking over the Middle East with its oil wealth by controlling three legs of a geographical chair: Syria, Yemen, Iran.
The FRussians here buy into every piece of Putin propaganda they can see.
Because 0% of American hits have been on ISIS.
Because Obama has fomented a civil war in Syria with an incredible death toll.
Because Obama has also fomented a civil war in Ukraine - for control of both Ukraine and Syria would allow this demented White House to control the critical gas pipeline routes to Europe.
There’s no enormity that Obama’s backers won’t commit to maintain NATO and to force Europe to keep using the dollar for trade reconciliation.
Dollar status is item zero on the agenda. If Europe stops using the dollar for trade reconciliation then the ponzi scheme is over.
My sympathy for the barbarians in the Middle East is gone.
Ten years ago, I thought that everybody deserved freedom and that we should go in there and liberate everybody and spread democracy.
Years in Iraq (been once) and Afghanistan (been twice) have educated us formerly naive Westerns about the true nature of these savages.
Remember, these poor innocent Syrians that want freedom are the same people that are raping Europe right now. Putin can bomb them all to Hell for all I care.
They deserve their dictators and repression.
70% of their hits are on groups like al Nustra, another word for “al Qaiada”. The most effective rebel groups (other than ISIS) are also not moderates.
-Putin us propping up a Baathist NAZI dictator in Syria who is killing his own people. -
Prior to Obama the United States propped up a bevy of similar thug dictators. The number one basic problem is that Islam is a tribal war cult. The Russians and the West are trying to impose a western national model on a bunch of warring tribes. Churchill famously created these new countries by drawing lines on a map after World War 1, with no consideration of the cultural, ethnic or social divides that had existed for centuries. Those lines must be maintained by force or the entire area will fracture into another Somalia. (That is what the much vaunted Arab Spring almost did.) The dictators, through the only means possible, force, maintain order and the semblance of civilization. This gives the west reliable and profitable trading partners. Notice there is no appreciable trade with Somalia.
Unlike Obama, who is operating in the interests of Iran, Putin is operating in the best interests of Russia. I am no Putin fan, but I believe propping up Assad is the least bad of a number of horrible alternatives.
The re [Russia] is propping up a secular dictatorship in an Islamic country. A rare thing these days.
Expected outcome of a power vacuum. Would you rather have China take it over?
He’s great because he is doing what your Glorious Leader is totally incapable of conceiving, because he is killing the slime that infest Syria, because he understands how ME and Arab politics work which neither you nor your hero 0bama can.
Islamic countries will always be at war in one way or another with each other as they have been for the past 1000 years, and each will always have a strong and ruthless leader as they always have.
You just do not understand how this part of the world works and seem to want some Mr Milquetoast to head these countries - never happen. Strength measured by ruthlessness is the only quality to be a good leader there. Get over it.
Here is why many of us approve of Putin’s Syria actions: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
There are few US friends in Syria. From Assad to al-Nusra to ISIS, they are all our enemies. Turkey is becoming an enemy of the West. They are all greedy, bloodthirsty psychopaths.
So, I don’t much care who bombs these creatures back to Hell. Too, the filled body bags are headed home to Russia, not back to the US. But I am especially glad our military is not (yet) being led into defeat by the most incompetent, America hating president in our history.
Why anyone would think that ISIS is the only set of bad guys in Syria escapes me.
Christians in Iraq were a lot better off under Saddam than they are under the U.S. puppet government, and the Christians in Syria are a lot better off under the Assads than they would be under any Saudi or U.S. (Muslim Brotherhood) puppets. And the Egyptian Christians are a lot better off under the former and current governments than they would have been under Hillary's temporary Muslim Brotherhood government.
So while Assad is a bad guy (all Muslims are to some extent) he's not nearly as bad as the options. And he wouldn't have had to turn to the Iranians and Russians if the US and France had a sane Mideast policy. And reasonable rules of engagement.
“Why people think this thug Putin is so great escapes me.”
Unlike SOME PEOPLE, I don’t let McCain and Obama tell me who the bad guys are. I do my own research, and my conclusion is that they are ALL BAD GUYS, but the least worst is Assad.
So if Putin is helping Assad, that is better then what others are doing, even if one of those ‘others’ happened to get himself elected and is running (ruining) my country.