Russia did just about nothing against ISIS. It was too busy bombing bakeries and hospitals to drive out civilians who dared to opposes their buddy Assad.
Russia did just about nothing against ISIS. It was too busy bombing bakeries and hospitals to drive out civilians who dared to opposes their buddy Assad.
Assad was losing before Russia intervened, and only kept alive by Russia, but the SDF with NATO air power is what destroyed the caliphate. You can tell it's Russian propaganda because on the US side it doesn't list "Destroyed ISIS in Iraq" with the PMU.
Putin opposed the Iraq war because he was friendly with and arming the enemy, not because he thinks going to war without a casus belli is wrong, see the repeated unprovoked land grabs and now full-on invasion of Ukraine.
The nazis in Ukraine bit is laughable given the number of checkboxes the Russian regime checks on the nazi scale. On a national level the deportations, denying and trying to wipe out the Ukrainian identity, reeducating children and the idea of lebensraum as just a few examples. On an individual level the number of Russian troops with nazi tattoos and fondness for taking pictures proudly posing with third reich flags.
And the nuclear first-strike bit is nonsense too. The entire regime keeps talking about nuking places. London, Paris, Washington, The Hague etc. Weapons like Sarmat and Avangard are proudly touted by the regime as first-strike weapons.
The saddest part is westerners posting Russian propaganda thinking they're saving their democracy instead of serving as useful idiots for a totalitarian people who are their doctrinal polar opposite.
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