Actually, just a few days ago Saudis announced that Russia agreed with them to reduce oil production. But now if Saudis at the same time start arming the Syrian rebels, would Russians still honor their end of the oil production bargain? I don't think so.

And that's what I have been saying. Turkey is doing in Syria what Russia has been doing in _east_ Ukraine. Crimea is not East Ukraine.

The Polish are not capable of independent from Washington DC foreign policy, much less interventions. They’re like a puppy that’s willing to please the owner. Invade Iraq! Yes sir... Raise stink that Russia is evil. Yes sir. Russian support remained limited because anything more would have been an outright open and…

That’s actually a bit of a myth. Check the invasion dates before you try to repeat it again. Germany invaded Poland on September 1st of 1939. Even though, it’s widely known that USSR had a pact to split up Poland, USSR did not invade until September 18-19th, and at that point the Polish troops barely offered any…

Looks fine to me. At very least, I won't confuse these Red Bulls with any other cars on the track, and that's what really matters. I was really mad at the situation of the 2015 season, when three distinct teams had liveries that looked effectively silver from distance. The Force India from certain angles looked like a…

Trump is far more reasonable about Russia relations than the establishment. His position is that we are far better off having good relations with Russia, rather than bad. His position is very similar on Syria. He is asking why we need to be adversarial with either Assad regime or Russia, when both are fighting against…

IndyCar isn’t a great advertising platform, period.. Sadly, barely anyone watches IndyCar racing when it's not Indy 500.

ISIS was created in Iraq after that country was devastated by the civil war following the American invasion, so yeah, GWB and his Iraq regime change did contribute to this.

For all we know right now, inside the bombed buildings there was no one except a bunch of holed up opposition snipers and RPG gunners. After all, did you see any civilians? If people are living there, why 90% of all windows in the buildings are missing? Aleppo was a place of savage urban combat for years now. I doubt…

Which poor people? Most of Aleppo is now a ghost town. Just look at the buildings. Most of them have windows missing. The area had been a place of savage urban fighting for years now. The residents are probably in Turkey or Europe right now.

Shockingly people are being killed by other people in a civil war. As for potential civilian casualties, just look at the windows of the buildings in that area. Most of them are missing. Aleppo had been a home to truly savage urban fighting for years now. I doubt many civilians are left there.

I am 99% sure the Saudi intervention is going to be in the form of Saudi C-130 tactical transports landing in Incirlik, loaded with tons cash. Then the Saudi defense calls his counter part in Turkey, and says “Suleyman... you have a strong and brave army. Would you make the Russians and those pesky non-radical…

It’s not clear what exactly authority USA had to declare a “no fly” zone over a sovereign countries. The only argument USA has in its sleeve against Assad’s regime is that he “slaughtered 300,000 people”. But this is a bullshit claims since this frequently quoted number includes more than two thirds deaths of…

I think Putin's vision is more along the lines of being the one who prevents the USA from ruining yet another fairly prosperous country. Just look at the list of countries where USA supported the regime change: Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Syria. Iraq, Syria, and Libya are now experiencing the worst and bloodiest civil…

If you're claim is true, it would not be the first time Foxtrotalpha showed a bombing video by Syrian air force, but claimed it was a Russian strike. I remember this video showing Russian-made helicopters dropping gravity bombs. The claim was that it was a Russian strike, even though the video title page said it was a…

I doubt Sanders will get nominated after what happened with the justice Scalia. Here is a small reality check for the Sanders-worship masses. Sanders is about the same age as Scalia. The guy would become USA president, if elected, at 80 years old. Do progressives really want to take such a gamble? Will their nominee…

Yeah, but Russians have now been formally banned from taking vacations in Egypt and Turkey. Staging such a terrorist act on Russian soil would be much harder, though not impossible. Chechen radicals have some experience with that..

I disagree about that. Unlike in the USA or UK, Arabs will have a much harder time dissolving in and operating in Russia, because seeing an Arab person in Russia outside of a small number of foreign student dormitories is so unusual there. So if ISIS were to strike something in Russia, they'd have to rely on Russian…

I fail to see how doing nothing would have changed the outcome for the better in either the Syria or Libya cases.

One interesting observation, if you look carefully at the buildings in the bombed out areas, do you see many buildings with glass windows on them or no signs of gun fire? In my humble opinion, those areas must have been vacated a long time ago. A civilians trying to make a living in a place like Aleppo must be insane.…