All were armed by the SU and then RF they are/ were buddies in crime.
Whose weapons does Iran use?
Same same but different?
Lybia is another story. But only Lybia.
Putin gifted us even more refugees with his war in Ukraine and indiscriminate killing, torturing and abducting of civilians.
The Ukraine crisis will affect many regions around the world, including the Middle East. As Russia’s invading forces pivot to siege warfare around Ukraine’s big cities, Moscow is likely to resort to scorched-earth tactics previously unleashed on the cities of Aleppo in Syria and Grozny in Chechnya.
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Erdogan even got some monies to stop the mess created in Syria by the slaughterer Assad.
After the peaceful protests which he clamped down the Muslimbrothers and all other fringe groups surfaced and produced that conflict spurring a huge wave partly aimed at Germany by Russia.
Merkel just swallowed it instead of fighting it.
A bit disingenuous.
They were mostly armed by the Soviet Union and the Russia, but Europe and the US also sold them a comfortable amount of weapons. Let's not blind ourselves, we are all equally "partners in crime" in that mess. The only thing that differs from one case to another is wether the partnership is motivated by ideology or profit, and in our case (EU and US) it was the monies that made the world spin.
And even as recently as the Nagorno Karabakh war.
What was it Von Der Leyen said about Azerbaijan? A trusted, reliable and treasured partner and ally of democracy?
One might say it wasn't Russia behind that one, but Turkey. And the EU.
As for the refugees?
Yeah, I beg to differ again. The migrant crisis broke out way before Putin decided to invade Ukraine or even annex Crimea. Russia might have played a role in the grand-scheme of things, but ultimately Europe f*cked itself from A to Z on its own. Both with the whole GWOT and then their participation in the human experiment that was the Arab Spring and the subsequent, and oh-so-impossible to see coming, "Islamic Winter".
Russia wasn't involved
It didn't even need to.
Just like Russia wasn't behind the various European politicians, political parties and officials that campaigned tooth and nails to welcome refugees.
Unless leaders from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Greece, etc... were all secret Kremlin agents?
Come on... Europe screwed itself and the only thing Russia did was to stand by and watch us destroying ourselves.
Same goes for Syria. Especially when Europe copiously financed the anti-Assad opposition without caring to track who they were providing money and weapons to.
Assad is a butcher, but we financed butchers as well and we refused to take responsibility for it. And we still managed to cheer for Russia when they kicked in and started to hammer ISIS.
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