Paulo1 wrote:Good for Russia.
The US is like one of those friends who say one thing to one group, and something else, to another. It is quite obvious that the natural (freedom loving) group to support is the Kurds.
Well it's a bit more complicated than that Paulo. Just forget about the US, take it off the map..
And there is still a country called Turkey and a country called Russia, that are neighbors and have some mutual animosities that go back centuries. Which ain't got nothin' to do with the US.
So.. there's this group the kurds, that wants a "kurdistan" which would partly be Turkish territory.
So okay, now Russia is getting involved with the kurds. This escalates Russia's problems with Turkey, I would think.
Does Russia really want war with Turkey? That ain't a good idea, folks. Forget about nukes, just conventional war would be pretty darn rough.
The overarching problem here is that there is not a global leader anymore, to take leadership and get an international coalition intervention and resolution of the Syria crisis. A smaller player, like Russia, that's not leading a coalition -- that's just trouble. Russia could get itself into a war with Turkey and that's got nothin' to do with the US.
Except that we're NATO allied to Turkey.
Let's all hope Putin knows what he's doing.
Paulo you can't just go on about "the USA," right now we are talking about Russia and Turkey and that's the problem.