A military man I spoke with this weekend said he thinks that once ISIL has consolidated their power a little more they will ask to be recognized by a country, perhaps Russia, and ask to join the UN, and then get nukes from Pakistan. Should they succeed then I don’t see why the Kurds could not do the same thing.
Some of the dissidents from Chechnya, who are having a lot of Muslims go to Syria to join ISIS, believe that ISIS is itself a Russian creation to begin with.
Defectors like Alexander Litvinenko have tied Russia directly to Al-Qaeda, while others have tied terrorism in general to Moscow.
That ISIS might proclaim itself a country and ask Russia to support it is plausible to me— but, then again, Russia also holds itself up as being anti-Islamist, when it isn’t supporting them. Not sure how that cognitive dissonance will work in their propaganda.
No doubt the UN will, too.
Thanks gleeaikin.