Get it Putin. Fuck USrael terrorism.

Well you just proved you're a shill.

Well because that comment was just so anti Semitic and anti US of course that's whys!

/s

What a weird unproductive reply,

Distract derail..

The Russians are just as cozy with Israel as we are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwznxJ8zaE

hahahaah almost smacked him from reflex

At one point maybe, but check out Putin's anti-Rothschild moves not to mention Putin putting a huge damper on the overthrow Assad plan.

One of the reasons Australia has a bigger GDP than Russia is that they don't spew money on shitty propaganda channels like RT.

Relevance? False equivalence at any rate.

Haha, come on, no random and not believable.

What are the current relations between Iraq and Iran? I remember reading a while back that Iran was helping them with ISIS. Would be very interesting to see them rebuild relations considering the 1m+ Iranians that died during the war just a few decades ago. I still hate the turks for what happened 100+ years ago

From what I've been reading about Iraq is that they're tired of the US which is why they want the switch. Especially when Iraq took Mosul but I guess the US tried to take credit for it and tried to say if we're leave this will happen again kind of shit. Plus they hate the "Reconstruction of their country" that we're doing

So glad you put the quotes mark in that statement, whithout it, it would have meant a total different thing.

Haha you're correct it took me a minute to even process that

Iraq is virtually a protectorate of Iran at this point. The Obama and Bush administration were so woefully incompetent that they allowed Iraq - of all places - to fall within the Shia sphere of influence.

The majority of the population is Shia. The militias that run Baghdad and keep the surrounding regions relatively secure are Shia. And the key decision makers in government are Shia.

iran and russia have mutual aid treaties with each other. they have for years.

if either is attacked, the other must come to the aid of the other. russia and china also have mutual aid treaties.

all NATO signatories are bound by the mother of all mutual aidvtreaties, article 5.

WW1 was a war caused by mutual aid treaties. as one country attacked the other it drew in new countries:

serbian nobody shoots austrian duke.

austria over reacts (because it wants to take serbia) and declares war on serbia

russia is treaty partner of serbia and declares war on austria

germany is treaty partner of austria and declares war on russia

france is treaty partner of russia and declares war on germany

germany invades france and england, treaty partner of france, declares war on germany

Interesting that this is only happening now that Russia has deep tendrils into our government. This play for Iraq wasn't happening 6 months ago.

How do you know it wasn't happening? Think about it from the Iraqi perspective. Someone came in to save them and made their life worse. Now they have an embassy that is really a military base, and just want to look at alternatives.

RT?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-iraq-tanks-idUSKBN1AA2A8

They're buying some T-90 tanks. I can't find a non-propaganda source that claims it's anything else.

That's weird, its almost as if you scrolled right past the newsweek article confirming this

Enough bullshit from you.

Sup with that ban? We can't even use the s word but mods can declare you an s?

Sabremesh has just been banning people he doesn't like for shilling, happened to another user recently as well.

RIP this sub. The last mod "elections" were shady as shit. /r/RedditAlternatives

I swear, our government is ran by a bunch of satanic 6 year olds. How can we spend hundreds of billions of dollars making a country like Iraq friendly to US interests, only to let Russia come behind us and take it? How does this happen?

Did we really think we could fund the rise of ISIS in Iraq without them finding out and turning their backs on us?

It is not like U.S. lets Russia take it, Russia hasn't taken anything, if anything it is the will of the Iraqui Government and it's people to become a Russian ally.

"US needs vassals, not allies, it doesn't suit Russia" -Vladimir Putin

Of course they did. You think we didn't know they were attempting to get cozy with Iraqi leaders? We did, and we should have taken the necessary precautions to avoid such a scenario. The possibilities for souring the Iraqi/Russian relationship are endless for a country like the US. We could probably convince the Iraqis that Russia intends to nationalize their oil reserves if we felt like it. When we lose allies, it's because we let them go.

It's not because we ran out of money, and trust me, money can solve anything.

U.S. loses because of poor foreign policy. U.S. foreign policy is "you are either an ally that will do what we say, or we will bomb you, your choice". Iraw was invaded by America years ago, and you wonder why they want no business with the U.S. By definition you can't be a sovereign nation if you are an American ally, due to America imposing its will on you., this is why America isn't ally of Russia because Russia won't bow down to America, Russia won't do what they want.

It doesn't matter if our foreign policy was to give every man, women, and child in the middle east AIDS- we have the resources to not only manage the fallout, but to see it through. You keep saying "they don't like us for obvious reasons", but that's only because our image, and the way in which we conducted our operations, was highly neglected. If we wanted to build an army to destroy Libya and Syrian, and whoever else, we should have done it in a way that didn't risk losing everything we've thus far gained, and we easily could have.

What are you arguing here anyway? That Iraq will most likely become a Russian ally? So be it, U.S. already destroyed Iraq years ago, there is no reason for Iraq to be an ally of U.S.

That is the US is going to be imperialistic, it better do it right. What else could I be asserting? I don't look at foreign relations from human perspective, and neither should you.

American imperialism will fail over and over again, because we are in a time in history in which voluntary cooperation is more production than forced cooperation. But carry on with your dilusional thoughts of imperialism.

What? Sounds like you're thinking with your emotions, and not your head. US imperialism has been more successful than any other form of government on this world. The only reason it's failing is because of absolute greed, rather than measured greed. I care for all people of the world, but I care for Americans before everyone else. I happen to believe in Capitalism.

US imperialism has been more successful ... The only reason it's failing is because

Pick one.

Actually, there's no signs it's failing for the administration. Just for it's citizens.

This is big news, but just part of a bigger picture. The US's schizophrenic behaviour of the last few months has seen Turkey turn their back on their back on the US and link up with Russia - a historic foe for centuries. This shows how bad Washington has played this game in Syria. Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are all pro-Russia.

The US is doing the same with Syrian Kurds, and this is not just pissing off Damascus, but Ankara as well. The US wants to carve off Eastern Syria/Iraq for that stupid natural gas pipeline which they will screw Russia.