Actually, I would consider them more trustworthy than the Gulf Arabs. And rapprochement with Iran is actually a good thing. They may be buying Russian military kit, but they have also ordered 100-odd Airbuses and are negotiating with Boeing for a similar number of brand new planes.

Turkey does not have a secular government. They have an Islamist government that is slowly becoming more authoritarian, and is becoming more like the governments of Iran, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan than the government imagined by Ataturk.

Honestly, I’ve been rooting for Assad from the beginning.

For complicated and sad reasons. Check out:

Turkey and Saudi governments presumably are rooting for ISIS.

Its just the hypocrisy, Israeli occupation of Golan and West Bank is OK, as are Israeli war crimes. Saudi use of banned munitions in Yemen and crushing Bahrain uprising is OK. British war crimes in Northern Ireland, also OK.US illegally invades Iraq,OK,US supports terrorists in Libya, Syria, OK.US supports Neo Nazis…

Theyd consider snowdays if it was less than 104°f?

We have people running for president that think Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain, and that some magical being created everything. I'm more worried about the crazies who actually have nuclear weapons at their fimgertips.

I don’t disagree with any of what you’re saying, but Russia still has the strongest historical argument to possess Crimea. Crimea was ethnically majority Russian since Russia conquered the Crimean turks more than 200 years ago. And 200 years is a long time. For example, Crimea was in the Russian empire even before the…

Hold up,the US supports Israel which is a terrorist state that has ignored multiple UN resolutions and murdered thousands of innocent men women and children over the past few decades.They sheedded refugee camps,shoot stone throwing children, evict people and seize their property.The US supports Britain which in the…

Exactly, people need to stop imaging this proxy shadow war when it simply isn’t there.The Russians aren’t like the Americans, they don’t play people against each other.The US games of funding specific terrorists while demonizing others has played a huge part in getting us where we are today.My mind boggles as to how…

Because that worked so well for us in Iraq and Afghanistan...

The Levant is kind of an archaic term for a much wider swath of the eastern Mediterranean incorporating what are now Syria, eastern Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, south eastern Turkey, and the Sinai (Egypt). As a label, ISIL does a better job of reflecting the scope of the intended caliphate than ISIS, which suggests…

Russia isn’t interested in taking over Syria. It is interested in keeping a regime in power (one that allows it to have a military/naval base that doesn’t freeze over most of the year). For a country that is keen to be on the level of any other superpower in the world, it’s stupidly obvious why they want to keep such…

Russia is trying to save their ally Assad, they have no desire to conquer Syria.

DAESH in arabic.

Unlikely since in order for Putin to take on “moderate freedom fighters” such mythical creatures would first need to exist... Or be a viable force beyond 5 guys hiding in a basement somewhere and their leader with his legs blown off in a hospital in Turkey.

Except those video games aren’t an official production of the United States government.

Not a Blue Jays fan, but this is kind of amazing. They did a great job of lining up every hit with the beat.

Most dominant offense BY FAR, and it isn’t close.