Does Putin still pay by the word?

“And if the Russians get their asses handed to them like they did in Georgia (the last time they deployed conventional forces)...”

Yeah of course no-one in their right minds will oppose Russia - this is a battle against ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

Oh for crying out loud, here’s a dollar, go buy yourself a clue: do you know how much money Gazprom brings in for Russia in selling gas to Europe?

The West and other Gulf states are operating in Syrian sovereign airspace right now with neither a U.N. mandate or the permission of the official Syrian government. If Syria and Russia want to conduct air support operations for their ground offensives against the jihadist rebels — without fear of collisions or…

The Russians are sick of watching our proxy armies attack their ally Assad. The coalition supporting and directing ISIS and Al Nusra Front in Syria want Assad out so they can reduce Iranian influence in the region and install a compliant puppet government which would allow a pipeline through Syrian territory to…

Independent Kurdistan. That’s cute, says Turkey.

Name all the counties they have proxied.If I were to name US proxies I would be here all day, god even small neutral Ireland is under the thumb of the US. I welcome the presence of Russia to balance the US the power of the US to destroy countries at will.If Assad falls there will be yet another terrorist state.

We had our chance to do the right thing in the region, but we’ve been making one mistake after another after another for about seven years now. Basically every Obama policy has led us to this point, and now we just have to deal with it. The sad thing is that if we’d have played our cars right, we could have…

The US cozying up to Assad is pretty much a non-starter.

You should see some of the Governments the US has supported over the years. Make’s Assad look like Mother Theresa.

Everyone in the Pentagon must be salivating at the chance to see what kind of expeditionary force capability the modern Russian military is actually capable of fielding. We must be deploying every snooping asset in our arsenal to the Mediterranean right now.

Pretty much the side benefit of US going into Iraq in the first place... until the US got bored of bleeding money in Iraq, where they weren’t welcomed with flowers like some morons predicted.

agreed. it’s truly indescribable.

Makes sense to me. Unlike us Russia has zero competing incentives when it comes to propping up Assad and spending some infantry lives to push back daesh. It would be nuts for us to go through five or six Fallujahs on behalf of an asshole like Assad, but then we don’t have a mediterrenean sea port and key strategic…

I love boxy old russian planes. They just look so damn cool for some reason.