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Russia is in Syria legally and with the permission of their treaty ally Syria.

The US is there because we’re trying to help Qatar and Saudi Arabia to build a gas pipeline to Europe across Syria. The strategic purpose of that pipeline is to harm Russia economically.

Syria said no to the plan and after they said no then all of the sudden the Obama Administration and John McCain decided that they had to arm the Islamic fundamentalists (who later became ISIS) so they could overthrow Assad and make way for the pipeline.

We destabilized one of the few stable Arab countries just so we could play economic chess with Russia.

And now the Russians are absolutely going to shoot back and I do not blame them one bit. The USA is 100% wrong in Syria. We created ISIS and now we’re using ISIS as a pretext to continue an undeclared war of aggression against a sovereign country that did us no harm and that was no threat to us or Israel.

I love our armed forces (I’m married to a Marine) but if they attack Russians or Russian allied then the result will be predictable.

We would not tolerate it if Russia were supporting a civil war in the United Kingdom or Israel and bombing government positions and shooting down their airplanes, would we?

Then why should Russia do any different?

We're there to prevent Iran from establishing a corridor to the Mediterranean and from taking the oil and gas fields/pipelines in ISIS-controlled territory when ISIS goes down.

There is no doubt this entire situation is a mess, but then situations like this are always a mess when the original enemy is routed and there is an all-out grab for power, territory, and assets remaining.

We destabilized one of the few stable Arab countries just so we could play economic chess with Russia.

That's not why Obama wanted to destabilize Syria.

Obama wants Assad gone for the same reason he wanted Qaddafi and Mubarak out.

He wants hard-lined islamic rule in these countries and that requires the destruction of moderating influences.

We created ISIS and now we’re using ISIS as a pretext to continue an undeclared war of aggression against a sovereign country that did us no harm and that was no threat to us or Israel.

Hard to find a single part of this quote that isn't incorrect.

We didn't create ISIS: they're more or less the same Baathist/al-Qaeda in Iraq guys who were attacking US soldiers a few years ago in Iraq. Zero's pathetic withdrawal from Iraq simply created the space for them to operate.

The Assad Syrian franchise operation didn't have any problem hosting them when they were killing Americans.

Almost all of Russia's and Syria's military operations have been directed against Syrian regime opponents, not ISIS.