Paphitis:
Why Observer? We are still fighting ISIL for what it's worth but I have a feeling that ISIL is about to double its strength from all the other recruits they are going to get from the other Jihadi groups which Putin has bombed.
That is why Russia is destroying ‘
terrorsts’ ..... all of them including the good terrorists the US has armed and are now joining ISIS and taking their weapons with them. The fools here are the US/NATO who armed them and supported them in the first place.
Russia did not have a right to do this and if they wanted in, the least they could have done is help soften DAESH first and stop this from happening.
Russia had EVERY right to do this! They were invited in to do just that by the recognised government of Syria ............. US/NATO countries were not. Without being requested to enter the country they needed a UNSC mandate to do so ....... they never bothered because the US Administration is so arrogant it really does believe it is the ‘indispensable’ and ‘exceptional’ nation......... Putin is now correcting that false statement.
Putin just wasted 2 years.
No ..... US/NATO have wated 4 years by trying to get regime change without getting their boots dirty using ISIS/Islamic extremists to do the job for them ......... only because the people of the US will no longer accept their Governments penchant for going to war to benefit the administrations political, commercial and military interests.
Coalition can't kill them fast enough to outpace their recruiting. It's just an endless conveyor belt of death. A sausage factory and Russia just made it worse. Some are even teenage boy "soldiers"
And it is has been the US/NATO that has been supplying the ingredients! Russia is about to put them on a healthy diet and Assad has even offered an amnesty to all those FSA deserters, providing they have not committed war crimes.
Paphitis ..... your hatred of Putin is clouding your judgement.
No matter how bad you think the West is, I think you should feel ashamed of yourself for turning your back on your own country. Putin has caused a lot of shit in the last 2 or 3 years.
Unlike you I am not blind to 'my' country's faults! I think you will find that most ordinary, sensible people who can see through the MSM bullshit are in step with me. You are in a small minority who supports the killing and destruction by US/NATO over the last four years. It seems from most of the reader’s comments in the MSM, it is Putin that is now getting the support. People like me have had enough of the murder and mayhem that our misguided Western (
US led ?) forces have imposed upon the world. It has to stop and I believe that Putin has the respect and support of the people to do just that. You’re backing the wrong horse!