Russia is invited by the government to help in the fight against wahabbi terrorists imported from Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Turkey used to smuggle Syrian oil, but today that "job" belongs to the USA.

Saudi Arabia. Russia supports Assad and has no interest in destabilizing the country because they want to maintain their naval base at Latakia etc.

Turkey is at least as much at fault as Saudi Arabia. They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists. The US also financed a lot of them.

> They literally straight up pay salaries to wahabbi terrorists

Really? I did not know that. Have you a source?

I do :

> The Turkey-backed FSA's wages are paid for by the Turkish government, they operate alongside the Turkish Armed Forces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Army

As for their terrorist proclivities:. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/turkish-backed-forces-f...

To be fair though, they basically took over the CIA operations.

Until Trump appeared on the scene. You missed that out.

Actually, it continued for two years at least into the Trump presidency, see Operation Timber Sycamore.

Northeastern Syria (major agriculture/oil region) has been actively occupied by USA for the better part of a decade. Turkey occupies Northwestern Syria (Idlib) along with US-backed HTS.

Arguably the only reason Syria didn't collapse like Libya/Iraq is because Russia was there to balance against US interests.

The Syrian conflict, though deliberately obfuscated, was probably primarily a conflict between Russia-backed Iran and US-backed Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is an arm of the latter.

I was thinking that it was engineered because Assad refused to allow Qatar South Par gas pipelines from criss crossing his country on its way to Europe. The arreas occupied by ISIS terror group in Iraq and Syria were actually areas meant for South Par gas pipelines. South Par gas would have freed Europe from Russia energy dependency.

Yes, this is the real reason for the war. Had Assad accepted the proposal, he would be hailed in the MS media as a hero and a great leader who turned his country into a desert oasis.

Of course, this would have isolated and aggrovated Russia further, and Assad knew that. Nevermind that Syria is within range of Russia's missiles. He also knew what became of Sadam Housein (once an ally to the US) once he was of no use to the West.

In any case, causing a civil war inside a country just to punish a leader for making calculated, reasonable choice is criminal and evil.

Well you conveniently skipped another very important country in the region.

For those of us interested but less informed - could you name the country directly?

It's a different axis. The Turks are fighting the Sauds for influence in the Islamic world, while the Sauds are fighting the Iranians in their imagined Shia vs Sunni conflict.

The one in the title post.

Saudi Arabia as the direct source of Wahhabis, with the US funding and arming them.

Russia has been supporting the secular Syrian government.

I fail to see how the US is funding the Saudis. Arming, maybe. Funding? Not so much.

Not necessarily Saudis but the so called "rebels". Turkey openly aided ISIS and other violent rebels in the region. I can tell you Turkey did not do this alone as a Nato member.

and turkey host more than 3 millions syrians. how many the US do after starting the war?

The US funds Wahhabis all over the world, from Syria to Kosovo to Iraq to Xinjiang.

ask the clinton fundation

why am i being downvoted. it's public knowledge and part of why assange rots in jail. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-cli...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia.