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Originally Posted by blankall
I don't defend Turkey. However, I don't defend Russia either. A major factor in all this was Assad's refusal to step down early when protests started for a democratic election. Since 2012, Russia has been vetoing any kind of action against Assad. Assad is also using Russian made weaponry to kill hundreds of thousands of his countrymen. While ISIS is exceptionally brutal, Assad is responsible for far more deaths in sheer numbers.
Russia stepping in as soon as it became clear that Assad was really on the ropes is hardly commendable. They've had numerous chances to work with the UN to find a solution, but have consistently vetoed any action, for the simple reason that Syria is within their sphere of influence and they want to keep it that way.
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I agree with all that. I'm not really interested in defending Russia anyway, I just felt like pointing out why I don't think it's unreasonable to do so in this one situation.
And I guess I felt like talking about why I don't really see much of a difference between Russia and the West. They're all generally speaking a bunch of a-holes, even though they also occasionally can be in the right.