Russia now controls the Middle East.

[still_one]

[DURHAM D]

1. What could possibly go wrong? nt

[Blue_Tires]

2. I'm still waiting for the leftbros

to start calling Russia an "imperialist empire-building warmonger"

[roamer65]

3. Russia's government is kleptocratic fascism.

There is nothing leftist about it.

[Newest Reality]

5. ++Good!

[roamer65]

4. Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The public face of the Sino-Russian alliance.

Russia has the military might, China the economic.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. They can set oil prices by threatening any oil state

That does not follow Russia’s rules about who gets to produce how much. And since Russia has nukes that it can feed to its surrogates, Russia now controls the world’s oil. The attacks on Saudi Arabia were a warning. Putin now controls world oil prices.

[inwiththenew]

7. Hopefully they do a better job than we did

We've been actively engaged in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and can anyone objectively say that it is better now than it was prior to our invasion? Could you say that at any point in the past 16 years?

[OldRed2450]

8. Putin and Assad do not care one bit if ISIS strengthens there and attacks the West.

They probably would help them