Putin has checkmated Obama in Syria

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Iraq is also working with the Russians, and the Leader that has to go is Obama.

The only way to bring peace to Iraq and Syria is to kill ISIS.

Non native forces with outside support, are never moderates. They are hired guns.

Syria has the most Eastern Orthodox Christians outside of Russia. Iraq Christians fled the American invasion of Iraq. They went to Syria.

None of the countries that supplied ISIS fighters wants them back.

They were to win or die trying, and they did not win.

Russia has been the main target of Islamic terror, which the Saudi's admitted funding.

It is payback time.

I hope Putin actually does some good for the region. ISIL is on the same level as the Nazis at this point in my mind and needs to be eradicated.

As far as checkmating Obama goes, a two year old child could do that. The guy is an incompetent boob.
What disturbs me is that Russia is once again making moves into the Mediterranean area, as they have been trying to do for at least 150 years. This is just the next phase in the Great Game.

It's sad that Syria was ever seen as a chess game to begin with, Putin's intentions are clear about protecting Christians and their long standing mutually beneficial relationship with the Assad regime while ours is much more Machiavellian. Lets not pretend this is about human rights or "freedom", it would be a joke to even suggest it. This is geopolitics 101, Syria is a key key piece. So al-Qaeda is suppose to be our friend again Secretary Kerry? Our government and propagandist media had Assad picked to be overthrown and Gadaffi'd in another "Arab Spring" black op before a single protester was harmed in Syria. Syria was always on the checklist, just like Libya, just like Iraq, and just like IRAN. The neotrots that control our government made their move flooding Syria with tens of thousands of foreign insurgents and weaponry, Putin has more credibility than the west when it comes to foreign policy. Just check out the body counts, are we making anybody freer?

I don't think the Russians will be much more successful than the US. The reality is these countries are divided.

The cat is already out of the bag, it is not the 1960s anymore news travels, and provocateurs know that asymmetric warfare works.

It will only be resolved when they learn to live together, without wanting to kill each other.

The primary reasons why Putin is doing this is to confound American foreign policy, and to extend Russian influence once again. If Putin thought he could gain anything from it, I have no doubt he'd support ISIS. And the fact is, as Assad is another strong man very much like himself, Putin I think sees him a kindred soul.

Russia's activity in Syria will for the most part be limited to protecting Assad.

You can't checkmate someone you can't force to abide by the rules of chess. If a bully is otherwise about to lose to a nerd, the former can break the rules any way he wants to, and, if the latter dares to complain, he'll be beaten up by the bully. Vae victis!