Salami also stressed Russia went into Syria because otherwise it would have to fight jihad at home (that's exactly what the Chechens at ISIS/ISIL/Daesh want). Putin's Syria strategy, by the way, has been fully supported by the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, who was a key guest at the Valdai summit last week.
I'm the Caliph; hear me roar
Faced with the Russian/Iranian strategy, what is the Empire of Chaos to do?
Murk the already murky sands, what else? That sorry lot that passes for Obama's "senior national security advisers" has recommended positioning US Special Forces closer to ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in Syria.
This special "guidance" is supposed to help the coalition known as Democratic Forces of Syria -- which is led by the YPG Kurds -- to take Raqqa. But that does not necessarily mean US Special Forces will be fighting alongside the "4+1" towards the same objective. After all, we're always thrown back deep into Geopolitics Surrealistan -- where the US-led Coalition of the Dodgy Opportunists (CDO) totally ignores what the "4+1" are doing. And don't forget intra-coalition hatred -- as in Ankara abhorring the US insistence on working with Syrian Kurds.
As for Iraq, the Obama administration and the Pentagon now barely qualify as the butt end of running jokes. Sunnis in Anbar province are furious that the mightiest satellite surveillance system in history simply failed to register ISIS/ISIL/Daesh's advances, from Tikrit to Ramadi and environs.
To add a final insult to (repeated) injuries -- as in the "4+1" intel center in Baghdad, excluding the US, plus the authorization for Russia to bomb fake "Caliphate" convoys trying to cross from the Syrian desert -- Baghdad and the EU have just agreed to set up yet another intel center to exchange data on ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. The bottom line is the Obama administration is absolutely terrified that the EU is inclined to support the Russian campaign -- increasingly regarding the CDO for what it is; a joke.
The near future offers even more dangerous surrealist instances; think of the Obama administration helping Shi'ite militias to take Mosul in Iraq back from ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, and at the same time helping Kurds in Syria to take back Raqqa, an Arab city. All hell is bound to break loose between Sunnis across "Syraq" and Americans -- and ISIS/ISIL/Daesh will mightily profit from it.
As it stands, there's not going to be a frontal attack on Aleppo by the SAA and Iran/Hezbollah, covered by the Russian Air Force; instead, the "4+1" strategy will be to disrupt to the max the logistical supply routes to all Salafi-jihadi outfits, which implies trying to cut off the flux of cash and weapons smuggled via Turkey.
But once again; what about the Empire of Chaos?
The Obama administration is essentially fighting -- sort of -- ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in Iraq, where Washington lost a multi-trillion dollar war. Team Obama never bothered to fight the fake "Caliphate" in Syria -- because they were contributing to the "Assad must go" agenda.
Sultan Erdogan -- with Ankara at the table in Vienna -- is still allowed to have a free-for-all border out of which ISIS/ISIL/Daesh profits handsomely. And the paranoid, Shi'ite-hating House of Saud -- with Riyadh at the table in Vienna -- is still allowed to shower all manner of Salafi-jihadi goons with all manner of weapons. This is what passes for Obama's policy in Syria, as the Caliph's roaring laughter can be heard all the way to Vienna.
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