- 04 Oct 2015 05:52
#14606744
Not only is this going to turn out very bad for Russia, it's going to reverse all of the West's attempts to turn the tide against IS. They couldn't have hoped for anything more, to bolster their recruitment drive.
Source: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resou ... l-in-syria
While many in Syria absolutely reject Daesh/ISIS and its deviant practices, they will not under any circumstances be throwing rice or flowers onto their newest invaders, if and when ground operations begin. In fact, the public endorsement by the Russian Orthodox Church of the strikes and its description thereof as a “holy war” have given a whole new dimension to the conflict in Syria. No sooner had the church Patriarch Kirill given his blessings to the operations did social media activists across the Middle East call for Muslims to go to Syria’s rescue in the same way that they had rescued Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Source: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resou ... l-in-syria