Russia - threadbanned users in OP

How did the Syrians feel about the Russians bombing the sh1t out of the everything and anyone who didn't support Assad ,

The Russians Had very little involvement in fighting isis , several hundred Russians had a go a a small US and Kurdish force which didn't go so well for the russians , hundreds dead in just over an hour,

Yeah definitely didn't hit isis ,

But they did bomb schools and hospitals and clinics in Syria , something like 100+civilian hospitals and clinics bombed by russian aircraft ,

I'm sure Syrians are delighted with Russia 💣💣💣🤯🤯🤯

You don’t know know what you’re talking about, at the break up of the Soviet Union some Azerbaijanis took the opportunity to settle old scores with Armenians in Baku and murdered many in pogroms. The tanks went in to restore order and to protect the defenceless Christian Armenians.

On the subject of Azerbaijan, would you consider that country to be a dic(k)tatorship? Probably not as they are they de facto NATO members and therefore valued allies.

@correct horse battery staple Remember that time an expensive and advanced anti aircraft missile platform developed a sentient AI and driven itself across the Russian border to shoot down a passenger plane full of Europeans only to drive itself back.

Yeh something similar happened in Syria, those were totally not Russian mercenaries using chemical weapons on civilians /s.

Rt says it didn't happen but they did Say it was the cia who shot down flight MH17 using a man with a jet pack

It's all murica , murica, murica.

One explanation is that there is new generation of young people that are tired of the same old stupid politicians in power.

Cracks starting to appear in Putins inner circle of warlords?

Needing Russian forces to bail him out as his own soldiers may join the protesters.

It's interesting how quick the cracks can appear in these post Soviet regimes. Just look at Belarus last year. If a couple of them rose at the same time. Putin would have a very difficult time controlling them.

As like a poster earlier said, Chechnya is not secure either.

But they aren’t peaceful protests over gas prices. At the moment the army seems to be behind the government and the protesters heavily armed. Does it seem normal to take up arms over price rises ( I nearly fainted when I got my recent gas bill, know anywhere I can get an AK47?)

Where have these weapons come from and how did they get into the country?

The Russians are probably correct to intervene on behalf of their CSTO allies to prevent civil war on their border. Don’t forget Russians make up 30% of the population in Kazakhstan.

@Elmer Blooker Don’t forget Russians make up 30% of the population in Kazakhstan.

20.2% of the population , Kazakhstanis make up 67% and Ukrainian ,urhurs, Germans ,tars ,ubzezhs make up another 10%.

Maybe people got fed up of being treated as if they were still part of the Soviet union , maybe they want to make their own decisions about their country and not what someone in Moscow wants,

So little need for russian troops