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1-Dec-15 World View -- Putin's Syria intervention hobbled by weak Russian economy

France demands that Russia target only ISIS in Syria

** 1-Dec-15 World View -- Putin's Syria intervention hobbled by weak Russian economy
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e151201



Contents:
France demands that Russia target only ISIS in Syria
Putin's Syria intervention hobbled by weak Russian economy


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Russia, Turkey, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Ukraine, Crimea, Syria, Turkmen, France, François Hollande, Romain Nadal,
Henri Barkey, the Turkish straits, Bosporus and Dardanelles channels,
Black Sea, Crimea, Sevastopol

John wrote:Hollande said that Putin had agreed that Russian attack should only hit ISIS and "similar jihadi groups" in Syria. There is no evidence that Russia is abiding by this statement which, like most of Putin's statements, is really meaningless.

There are like 30 different Jihadi groups and they are changing names and alliances all the time. They all keep saying "Allah Akbar" and shooting at the government. They all think that democracy is "man's laws" and that Sharia is "God's laws" and want to move to God's laws and are willing to kill anyone who does not like that. If you look at the maps over time it is clear the different Jihadi groups are acting as supply lines for each other. I would guess they are trading with each other or letting traders pass through for a fee. It is the only way they can be getting supplies as most of the groups are surrounded by government and other groups. Really they are all reading the same book and are really all very similar groups.

Now that Turkey can no longer bomb the Kurds, the Kurds and Syrian government friends will close off the supply routes to Turkey. Then all the rebel groups will run out of supplies. It is very hard to fight a war without lots of new ammo.

In any case, for the government and their allies to shoot at anyone shooting at the government does not seem too surprising. Imagine in the next war China is dropping weapons to 30 different Jihadi groups in the USA and these groups are shooting up people in the USA, would you expect the US government to only shoot at the most barbaric of these groups and leave the others alone?

It would be interesting to know what groups Hollande thought he meant by "similar jihadi groups".

Obama did not want to bomb the ISIS oil because he was worried about environmental damage. The 250,000 lives lost from this war so far and many more the longer it goes on are somewhere lower on his priorities.