West should compensate Russia for fighting terrorists in Syria: Pundit

Russia has carried out airstrikes since Wednesday against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists (ISIL or ISIS) near the city of Homs in western Syria.
 
The Russian strikes have drawn criticism from Western governments and their allies in the Middle East, which have been supporting the militants operating in the region.
 
Moscow is “helping an ally who is under attack from a foreign mercenary army,” Daniel Patrick Welch said.
 
“Will it be expensive? Yes it’ll be expensive but the West should pay Putin back because this is their genie that they let out of the bottle and they can’t quite get back in,” Welch said.
 
“They’ve been fighting this fake war on ISIS which is partly their creation or at the very least is an outgrowth of the death squads that they have funded and trained,” he noted.
 
A senior US administration official said Thursday that Russia will not be able to hold out long in Syria with “no future” for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab country.
 
CNN quoted several Obama administration officials who said no ambiguity remains about Russia’s strategy in Syria.
 
According to the CNN report, President Barack Obama's administration assessment is that Russia is seeking to take over the airspace in the region and be the agenda-setting force on the ground.
 
"The Russians can't be stupid," said a senior administration official. "This is going to be wildly expensive. And they can't hold out long.”
 
“They know in the end there is no future for the guy (Assad) because the whole reason they had to come in is because Assad and his forces were extremely vulnerable,” said the official.
 
The official who spoke on condition of anonymity called on Russians “to come to their senses, stabilize the situation and then we can agree on the Assad piece."
 
“The US and its so-called coalition of the willing is not serious [in fighting Daesh] and they’re upset because Russia is coming to the aid of an ally,” Welch said.
 
Washington is “super mad” because the era when it could declare a sovereign government like Syria as illegitimate is over, Welch argued.