Oh, they did more than that, I assure you. That last convoy the old boy traveled in wasn’t stopped by fairy dust falling from the sky.

As someone of Albanian ancestry, I fully agree with you. Turkey is a shit show, but so is Russia. Give the Kurds a state and fuck Russia and Turkey.

It's now known that the largest buyer of ISIS oil (actually poorly refined diesel or gasoline) is the Assad regime. Most ISIS petroleum is consumed by ISIS. A small amount is sold to Turkish buyers (not the Turkish government).

You would be amazed.

Nope. As many problems as America has, it can afford its military machine. Even a scaled-back version would still be formidable.

Now let’s see a graph that includes 2014 and 2015 ...

Luckily for the US we are a diverse, consumer driven economy that can weather low oil prices no problem. Sure they’re hurting a certain sector of the economy, but last time I checked we weren’t devaluing our currency.

The only privately owned TV news network in Russia that I know of is TV Rain (Dozhd), and it’s currently being investigated for “extremist” programming and fire code violations.

Well at least it makes those Kilos cheaper to operate

Closing price under $40. Ouch.

Well said, but with minor corrections - right now, more of the Syria’s people are supporting Assad than they were 2-3 years ago, all thanks to the ISIL, Al-Nusra and other nutjobs. A lot of them just want the war to end.

I have too seen the same DoD (and UK MoD) data - that’s where my silly idea comes from. And the conclusion is that Arabs are just showing off. Their prime target is Yemen.

I mostly agree, although I think that US has a certain moral responsibility to sort out the situation in Iraq.

In my opinion there are (or were) two solutions, based on the rise of islamist rebels and ISIL:

Why wouldn’t Tyler’s tone turn negative? This administration has created an epic clusterf**k in foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, through either sheer incompetence or through stupefying inaction.

AHAHAHAHA!!! Russia complaining it isn’t getting classified info from NATO!?!? That’s a good laugh. Seriously, did they really expect NATO and especially the US to provide intel that can give the Russians clues as to our TTPs, sources and methods, or the ridiculous extent of American technology over the battlefield?

Nice conspiracy theory/propaganda website.

While Turkey is doing shady things, the theory that Turkey had shot down that Su-24 in order to protect its oil trade with ISIL is beyond ridiculous -it was shot down over the western Syria, where the Turkmen rebels are operating and ISIL is hundreds of miles away, to the east. It was shot down because someone had an…

God, Turkey and Russia are the worst.