Russian leader Vladimir Putin continues to take advantage of President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy.
His latest plot is a military push to take over American influence in the Middle East. Putin has sent top Russian generals to Baghdad to coordinate a regional power plan between Russian, Iranian, Syrian, and Iraqi militia forces, according to reports from multiple news agencies.
The plan seems to be simple. The four sides will cooperate to push back the ISIS forces Obama has been unable to contain — and use the power vacuum to carve out a huge chunk of this vast territory for themselves.
The move would make Russia and Putin even more influential in the Middle East. And even American allies are starting to back Russia. Israel has set up a joint mechanism with the Russian military to coordinate their operations in Syria and avoid any accidental confrontations, a senior Israel military official said Thursday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of military regulations, said that teams headed by each of the militaries’ deputy chiefs will hold their first meeting in two weeks and will discuss coordination of aerial, naval and electromagnetic operations around Syria.
Russia has backed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad’s regime throughout the nation’s civil war, which has killed more than 250,000 people, and has been building up forces there to help Syria in its battle against Islamic militants.
The United States and its allies see Assad as the cause of the Syrian crisis, but Washington has done nothing to stop Moscow from beefing up its presence.
Assad, a long-time nemesis of the United States and a key ally of Iran and Hezbollah, is seeking Russian troops to prevail in the conflict.
Israeli officials believe that Iran has recently sent hundreds of fighters into Syria to help Assad’s beleaguered forces. Hezbollah forces, sent in from neighboring Lebanon, have suffered heavy losses.
With a coordinated front of Russian, Iranian, Iraqi Shitte milita, and Syrian forces against ISIS – and no US response – the Middle East could quickly fall under heavy Russian influence.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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Fuel oil, and diesel is a byproduct of gasoline and was always cheaper than regular gas. Why is our Gov. allowing the oil company’s to price gouge diesel, and fuel oil which our goods are transported, and home heated? What about all the business that collapsed, and all the mortgage foreclosures, that happened when gas prices went up? and all the business that are going to fold up and get less business.
hydrogen is the fuel of the future, the auto generator can make all the hydrogen fuel from water as you drive , the safes fuel on earth, because you have a tank of water and not a tank of hydrogen, and home heating plant can make all the electricity for your home for free, water to hydrogen generator electric plant , and these pieces of junk fuel injected gas wasting engine cars can be switched to hydrogen by putting two shutoff switches , to shutoff the fuel injectors, and the fuel pump.
Free energy inventors are being imprisoned, and murdered by our Gov. cold fusion , water to hydrogen, compressed air engine inventors, etc.
What to do? the auto company’s are owned by the oil company’s so the only way is to boycott the auto company’s by spreading the word around not to buy any new car, or truck, and demand water to hydrogen cars and trucks, and converter kits to change fuel injected engines to run on water to hydrogen fuel, by putting in two switches, one to shutoff the fuel injectors, and the other to shutoff the fuel pump
updated 12-03-2014 “Based on talks with actual engineers that work at Ford and GM, these two companies have actively discouraged any improvements in fuel efficiencies. Engineers would be threatened if they were caught tinkering with the computer systems or searching for ways to make the car engines run more efficiently.
Sad to see, but at least Putin is doing something…..What are our leaders doing about the Middle East, Syria and the Islamic States, besides jacking their jaws?
IMO Putin will regret trying to own the ME. Like they did in Afghan, before we did. Since Russia has an army like the west, not a terrorist, Trojan Horse type military like islam uses they are not friends to muslims. Instead they are just another western satan to milk for weapons they want to continue their quest for world domination! They, muslims, probably are telling Putin they are being victimized by the west and need Russia’s help to survive. Oh, poor us, please help! Allah owns the ME per muslims, and Putin’s name isn’t allah. Muslims are a knock off of Israelis. They are Mo’s chosen people, because allah said so. Their destiny is to convert or subjugate the whole world. They have an agenda, but not a schedule. The west has a schedule, but no agenda. Not even the one of self preservation but we seem to be learning? The big question is. Are our elected officials learning fast enough for us to survive? All these refugees are a stealth invasion force.
I’m reminded of a anti-Obama ad in the 2008 election where the world leaders sat around the table laughing at President Obama. Sadly that commercial is becoming reality. We have a weak and incompetent president who is surrendering American gains to all challengers.
At this point the best plan for Iraq may be to divide the country between the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. George Bush went to war against Iraq with no real plan of what to do once Iraq’s military was defeated. Presidents Bush and Obama have wasted trillions of American dollars and thousands of American lives while they searched for a workable plan to make Iraq a free country. As a result many Iraqi lives have been destroyed thanks to our clueless leaders.
Better Putin then the NWO.
I think the Russians will be great help to wipe out isis. They don’t have to operate under such restrictive rules of engagement.
Russia comes to the middle East with a relatively clean slate and therefore likely to make much more headway in mustering support against ISIS – they also have the more sensible policy towards Syria in backing Assad who -whatever the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel may believe had provided one of the more stable and decent administrations in the Middle East before the West influenced Arab Spring uprisings that back-fired so badly giving rise to the present strong aggressive jihadist/Isis movements. Any long-term ME policy must allow Assad to continue in charge of Syria on the grounds that a nation’s lasting social change can only come from within; it cannot be imposed from outside, world history demonstrates the social evolutionary process can tolerate dictators if they provide a period of stability to allow the necessary progressive internal changes to take place. The West -particularly the US- have shown they can no longer pretend to be honest brokers in the ME if only because -in the eyes of the Arab nations- they are tarnished by their close uncritical relationship with Israel, thus Russia should provide a better more stable influence in that theatre of turmoil for the foreseeable future.