Fresh off his visit to the US, French President Francois Hollande continued with his efforts to build a “grand coalition” against ISIS with a visit to Russia, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who indicated he is still very much willing to increase cooperation.
The two nations already agreed to increase bilateral intelligence sharing, and Putin insisted he is still fully willing to cooperate with the US-led coalition in fighting against ISIS, despite what he described as a “betrayal” by Turkey in attacking one of their bombers.
Putin did, however, caution that his willingness to cooperate had limits, and that any repeats of incidents like Turkey attacking and destroying their plane would severely limit their cooperation, and that Russia is comfortable continuing the ISIS war without cooperation if it has to.
Getting the US on board with the grand coalition is another matter, however. Russia has indicated its willingness for cooperation since their first started striking Syria, and it is the Obama Administration which has resisted that cooperation, insisting the US and Russian wars against ISIS are two different things.
Yes Russia and the Obama administration have very different plans on destroying the terrorists in Syria . The NATO plans is to take out ISIS as terrorists but leave the moderates Al Nursa and AlQaida to control Syria . Russia seems to think they are all terrorists and I believe we used to think that way too .
Since guerilla wars are unwinnable, neither plan will actually work, but Putin is now well and truly bogged down.
Other thing is Russia's is a war on terrorists and USrael's is a war on the next on Israel's hit list.
Essentially, Putin is capitulating and no one will worry if he makes a few threatening noises while doing it. In practice, even if Putin officially joins the US coalition, it will change nothing. He will probably just leave the Turkomen tacitly in peace and make sure his pilots avoid the short cut accross Turkish territory but will otherwise carry on his private war, attacking ISIS only if they threaten his naval base.
November 23, 2015 Washington’s Epic Stupidity: Video Message From Syrian al-Qaeda Terrorists—–Thanks For The TOW Missiles by ZeroHedge •
On September 30, just hours after a three star Russian general strolled into the US embassy in Baghdad and told the staff to inform Washington that Moscow would begin airstrikes in Syria “in one hour”, the Western media was alive with accusations that The Kremlin wasn’t targeting ISIS, but rather other, US and Saudi-backed rebel groups fighting Assad’s depleted SAA.
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