20 October 2015
After securing a beachhead in Syria, (click here) the terrorists wish to destabilize whole new regions, widen their expansion and recruit more fighters, including from Russia and former Soviet republics, the Russian president said at a meeting with the country's military top brass.
The extremists from the Middle East “have been recruiting militants and continue doing so in many countries, unfortunately including Russia and CIS countries,”
Vladimir Putin said, adding that Moscow launched its air operation in
Syria as a preventive action against Islamic State extremists....After securing a beachhead in Syria, (click here) the terrorists wish to destabilize whole new regions, widen their expansion and recruit more fighters, including from Russia and former Soviet republics, the Russian president said at a meeting with the country's military top brass.
Russia is more of an ally, than it ever is not.
The countries not part of NATO need the oversight of an ally that seeks to protect their borders and their people. Where The West leaves off Russia is always waiting in the wings. It is the way the world works.
August 14, 2014
By Juan Cole
The list of powers eager to see Daesh Iclick here) (what Arabs call ISIS or ISIL) defeated grew larger this weekend with a report in the Financial Times that Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim Jaafari received a pledge from his counterpart Wang Yi that China would intervene against Daesh from the air. It was not clear whether China was offering to fly fighter jets or just programmed missile strikes....
Rarely does the global community find China involved in any military effort, except, perhaps in the Pacific. But, Daesh is a global threat and China has no taste for a civil war.
