ISIS Russia and Turkey Question

[flowers]

I know Turkey is on isis side, heck they fund them don't they? Well what does Russia think about isis? Isis hates Assad and Russia on Assads side. What does Russia think about Turkey are they pals?

[EC]

Russia and Turkey have a hate:hate relationship. Turkey controls the only access to the Black Sea, home of Russia's only economically viable warm water ports.

[flowers]

Russia and Turkey have a hate:hate relationship. Turkey controls the only access to the Black Sea, home of Russia's only economically viable warm water ports.

Thanks.....yet isis is backed by Turkey right? so russia is against isis and Turkey?

[massadvj]

Thanks.....yet isis is backed by Turkey right? so russia is against isis and Turkey?

Like Iran, Russia is sitting back on its haunches hoping we are stupid enough to destroy ISIS for them.  They are hoping that once we bomb them into oblivion, Iran will go in and gobble up Iraq, and Russia will vastly increase its influence on the region.

[flowers]

Like Iran, Russia is sitting back on its haunches hoping we are stupid enough to destroy ISIS for them.  They are hoping that once we bomb them into oblivion, Iran will go in and gobble up Iraq, and Russia will vastly increase its influence on the region.

Thank you for info.

[Cyber Liberty]

Like Iran, Russia is sitting back on its haunches hoping we are stupid enough to destroy ISIS for them.  They are hoping that once we bomb them into oblivion, Iran will go in and gobble up Iraq, and Russia will vastly increase its influence on the region.

I concure.  SOP for the Russians has always been to destabilize a region, then move in to pick up the pieces after all the inhabitants kick the crap out of each other.  It's 100X easier to destabilize a country or region than it is to stabilize one.  Russia will get concerned about ISIS when they get involved with Chechnya.

[massadvj]

I concure.  SOP for the Russians has always been to destabilize a region, then move in to pick up the pieces after all the inhabitants kick the crap out of each other.  It's 100X easier to destabilize a country or region than it is to stabilize one.  Russia will get concerned about ISIS when they get involved with Chechnya.

Unlike the USA, there is no ambiguity in what the Russians, Iranians, Syrians, Saudis, Turks, Kurds, Israelis, Palestinians or even Chinese want in the region.  Our posture, meanwhile, has been completely inconsistent and at times unpredictable -- especially in the past six years.  The only thing consistent about the USA in the ME is that we have consistently been played for suckers, and we have consistently fallen for whatever gambit was played against us.

[Cyber Liberty]

Unlike the USA, there is no ambiguity in what the Russians, Iranians, Syrians, Saudis, Turks, Kurds, Israelis, Palestinians or even Chinese want in the region.  Our posture, meanwhile, has been completely inconsistent and at times unpredictable -- especially in the past six years.  The only thing consistent about the USA in the ME is that we have consistently been played for suckers, and we have consistently fallen for whatever gambit was played against us.

But for the oil, we wouldn't give two sh*ts what happens in that dump. 

[massadvj]

But for the oil, we wouldn't give two sh*ts what happens in that dump.

You and I wouldn't.  But OPapaDoc would.  Muslims matter to him, for some reason.

[Cyber Liberty]

You and I wouldn't.  But OPapaDoc would.  Muslims matter to him, for some reason.

Yeah, beats me why, too.

[SPQR]

I know Turkey is on isis side, heck they fund them don't they? Well what does Russia think about isis? Isis hates Assad and Russia on Assads side. What does Russia think about Turkey are they pals?

How can Turkey support ISIS and doing everything to keep them out. Also, Turkey is member of NATO

[SPQR]

How can Turkey support ISIS and doing everything to keep them out. Also, Turkey is member of NATO

Vladimir Putin has attacked Muslims in the Russian Federation to divert attention from his goal: “the final solution of the nationality question” in that country “on the basis of [Stalin’s] well-known dictum that where ‘there is no person (in this case, a group of people or nation), there is no problem,” according to a Kazan commentator

http://www.interpretermag.com/putins-offensive-against-islam-a-cover-for-broader-attack-on-non-russian-nations-kazan-tatar-says/

[SPQR]

Like Iran, Russia is sitting back on its haunches hoping we are stupid enough to destroy ISIS for them.  They are hoping that once we bomb them into oblivion, Iran will go in and gobble up Iraq, and Russia will vastly increase its influence on the region.

Russia has always had its eyes on the oilfields of Persia(Iran) since the days of the "Great Game". There is a possibility that Iran will gobble up Iraq