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Originally Posted by nik-
Just as bad guys, just as bad.
Look how many bodies of journalists and political opponents the US is stacking up.
Russians deserve their leaders.
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How does "supporting ethnic cleansings" compare with "killing journalists" in your books?
Turkey along with their Islamist militia allies are currently attacking essentially-Kurdish-controlled areas in Northern Syria and
openly threatening them with ethnic and sectarian cleansings.
And they've alreadly probably started doing this. You might have noticed that this same attack on Afrin is also mentioned on the story about Russian mercenaries attacking a US airbase. This is the what Putin has criticized the US for.
Now, US involvement in Turkish operations is indirect, but it's pretty definite. They are selling arms to Turkey which the Turks are then directly handing over to the "Arab militias" doing much of their groundwork, and there's nothing about this that's much of a secret.
Personally, I find it interesting that the western media has suddenly gone to calling these militias working with Turkey "Arabs"... more than a little vague, which in itself should already tell you what they are. They are of course Islamist extremist militias, some of them literally former ISIS guys under a new flag.
So, let's reiterate.
US is (indirectly but knowingly) arming Islamist extremists actively in the process of committing ethnic and sectarian cleansings with the support of Turkey, who are (more or less) a US ally. And this is the thing Putin has said to be against, and this is part of the context behind the attack on the airbase. (Probably among a dozen other things.)
Now you can make all sorts of ifs and buts around the issue of just how much US is actually supporting ethnic cleansing of Kurds, but considering it's pretty common in the area to think that's what they're doing, it kind of becomes hard to argue that Russians are bad guys for attacking a US airbase when that's part of the context.
I mean, the Assad regime might be mass murdering bastards (still using chemical weapons occasionally btw, although that doesn't really make news anymore), but they're still better than the Jihadists.