Iran, Syria and Iraq are teaming up with Russia- for now. Perhaps China, too.
This is not about Putin's fight against radical islam
It is about Putin securing a Russia's permanent security interests in the region. Which is not having muslim radicals in control of the oilfields and pipelines.
They are bad for business. Instability is bad for business.
what is obama’s national security policy and what permanent American strategic interests are being secured by this arrangement that our dumass State Department “doesn't oppose” and shrugs off as business-as-usual for Iraq?
(crickets)
There will come a time when Russia will team up with America against those muslims. But first there has to be a proper ‘team USA’. One that quits assisting Islamic grps as short term solution & starts to take back its leadership on the world stage. China & most of Southeast Asia, on the other hand, will be on the other side, muslims or not. We’ll see more of that in another decade.
Putin’s terrorist allies Ayatollah Khamenei and Muqtada al-Sadr are not muslim radicals? News to me.
The Chinese are sending aid and some arms to the Iraqi government. China wants the oil.