Islamic State – ISIS Now Looking at an Alliance with Russia

Obama nostrategy

The Islamic State needs options. It’s been picking fights with everyone, including its backers Qatar and Turkey. It dragged Obama into a war that he didn’t want only to realize that American air power may not be destroying it, but it is closing off some options for it.

(This is a lesson that countless Islamic terrorist groups keep painfully relearning without ever learning, whether it’s when taking on the US, Russia or Israel.)

One of its wackier ideas seems to be an alliance with Russia.

The report said that the manifesto, which Western security officials have deemed authentic, proposed offering Moscow access to an IS-held gas field in Iraq in exchange for “Iran and its nuclear program.”

Russia, a close ally of the Islamic Republic, built and helps operate the nuclear power plant at Bushehr in Iran. It is also already in possession of the largest proven gas reserves in the world.

The proposal also reportedly stated that in order to gain access to the gas field, located in Anbar province, the Kremlin would have to start backing the Sunni Gulf states against Shiite Iran and another Kremlin ally: the embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The plus side is that if Russia were to back such a move, it would potentially end US influence over the Sunni Gulf states which would be quickly overrun by ISIS if given half a chance forcing the US to either begin a prolonged Iraq x 10 war or give up.

Not that this is ever going to happen.

For one thing even Russia isn’t crazy enough to hand nukes over to ISIS. It thinks that Iran’s nuclear weapons are more of a threat to the West than to it. It just hasn’t thought too deeply about the problem with the “more” part. However ISIS has plenty of Chechens on board.

And it is a long term threat to Russia.

Trading Iran and Syria, a sure and decent bet, respectively, for a gamble on ISIS would be very much a long shot bet on the Islamic State being able to not only hold, but expand dramatically. Otherwise IS is basically trading Iraq and Syria to Russia, which it already has via Iran.

But this shows that ISIS is brainstorming possibilities, albeit ridiculous ones, and is more flexible than it has been given credit for.

  • Pete

    At one time the USSR backed both a Marxist Ethiopia and Somalia. They are traditional enemies. At the time people were very concerned that Russian planes and ships sortying from the Horn of Africa could choke off oil from the Middle East in case of a World war.

    At the time Russia was ascendant. they had client states in Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. It was around the time of the start of the Afghan invasion.

    Strange things like this has happened before.

    I do not expect it to work or to get to the negotiation phase. However, it would be Islamic for ISIS to observe a 10 year truce with Assad and Iran and look earnest when they would sign any peace treaty.

    A peace treat would protect ISIS against Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. A peace treaty would not protect Jordan from being infiltration, inside agitation or a quick war.

  • Pete

    Russia could sign a deal with ISIS if it did not attack a Syrian rump state, Shia Iraq, Iran or any other neighboring states. Of course they would not give them the nuke.

    They would turn a blind eye to deniable ISIS terrorism of Gulf states.

    I do not think it would work.

    But the level of population dislocations, deaths and terrorism that ISIS has done is commensurate with which the CCP did to gain power and hold on to it. that part did not bother the Russian so much as to severe alliances.

    I do not think it would work.

  • Gee

    Russia need more Muslim allies like Odumba needs more critical media

  • Softly Bob

    Why would Russia ever secure a deal with ISIS? Putin seems to be more aware of the dangers of Islam than any other World leader.
    Besides why would Putin want to ally with ISIS when Obama has already allied with them, even though Obama likes to pretend that he hasn’t?

    • Pete

      http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-hog-heads-back-to-sandbox.html

      I think the A-10 goes low enough and lsow enough for ISIS to break out any SAMs they have and take a shot. No way a A-10 can out run a SAM due to speed or distance. I just hope if and when one gets hit the other engine keeps on going. A-10s are built tough like WW2 bombers.

      A-10s are built for combat against another army that takes prisoners. You know they are going to get shot down. It is is given. The point is do they destroy more tanks and AFVs then they get taken out themselves?

      If Obama uses these he is an big fat idiot.

      He will just hand a hostage to ISIS.

      “The Pentagon is deploying 300 airmen and 12 A-10 combat jets to the Middle East in early October, according to the Indiana Air National Guard.

      The six-month deployment from the 122nd Fighter Wing is not specifically part of President Obama’s fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but the airmen and jets could provide air support to troops battling ISIS on the ground.”

  • Sara

    Czar Putin will have his cake and eat it too, as he is the master of backstabbing, or actually, front-stabbing.

  • Texas Patriot

    Never fear. The three largest Christian nations in the world today are America, Russia, and China. When the chips are down, Russia will be fighting on America’s side.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      The Christians do not have much (if any) influence over the regime. China needs some kind of revolution to be the friend we’d all like to see.

      • Texas Patriot

        Putin is a Christian. I’d say that he has some influence over the regime. China is making progress, and with the largest population of Christians of any nation on earth, I’m expecting that progress to continue.

    • Sara

      Russian allegiance will go to the highest bidder.

      • Texas Patriot

        The Russian people are survivors and predominantly Christian. When push comes to shove, my guess is they’d rather survive than not survive.

  • Erudite Mavin

    Great commentary, a subject that needs outing.

    “ISIS looking at alliance with Russia”

    This is another chess piece in the Russian – Iran diabolical chess game being played against the U.S. while the American general public think this is a game of checkers.

    Russia and Iran already allied in Syria have these other Proxy War pieces of their chess game in the Middle East, Parts of Africa and Latin America.

    A combination of a race for Nuclear weapons , power in various parts of the world with the bottom line, the take down of the U.S. and Israel.

    Another interesting article

    http://www.aim.org/aim-column/how-putin-is-using-isis-to-help-iran/print/

  • Pete

    Meanwhile is ISIS at the Border?

    “Major General Stephen Twitty, the new commanding general at Fort Bliss, Texas. Since taking command of the post (and the 1st Armored Division) in August, General Twitty has emphasized security at Fort Bliss, which lies near our porous border with Mexico”

  • ObamaYoMoma

    The plus side is that if Russia were to back such a move, it would potentially end US influence over the Sunni Gulf states which would be quickly overrun by ISIS if given half a chance forcing the US to either begin a prolonged Iraq x 10 war or give up.

    Actually, it’s more like the Sunni Gulf states influence over the USA, especially when it comes to duping us into fighting its jihads for them, i.e., the jihad we fought against our former allies the Christian Serbs for the benefit of Islam.

    Nevertheless, the US needs to begin a war, not a prolonged war necessarily, but a war just the same to eradicate Islam. Otherwise, jihad will plague the world perpetually from now on until eternity.

    Indeed, we should first form a coalition and ban and reverse mass Muslim immigration collectively with all of its excess baggage as the first step.

    Followed by bypassing ISIS to eradicate Iran’s nuclear weapons program. As it represents an exponentially far greater threat to the infidel world relative to ISIS.

    Next, we should eradicate Pakistan’s massive nuclear weapons arsenal before it inevitably gets dispersed throughout the Sunni Islamic totalitarian world.

    Then we should render the Islamic totalitarian world into total abject poverty by confiscating all the Middle East oilfields and gas fields, since they use the proceeds derived thereof to wage jihad against infidels anyway.

    Finally, the infidel world should totally isolate the Islamic totalitarian world until such time as Islam is no longer a force within that society. Since, Islamic totalitarian society is incapable of producing anything other than jihad and lots and lots of misery, that shouldn’t take too long.

    • Bamaguje

      “…we should render the Islamic totalitarian world into total abject poverty by confiscating all the Middle East oilfields and gas fields” – ObamaYoMama.

      I like the idea, but it would provoke a global Jihadist terror backlash. Not to mention their leftist collaborators screaming “Western imperialism” and “colonialism.”

      So we infidels must have the resolve to stay the course and see it through… Not back off at the slightest resistance or terror wave.
      Islam can be crushed and defeated.

      • objectivefactsmatter

        Jihadist terror backlash? It’s called flushing the enemy.

      • ObamaYoMoma

        I like the idea, but it would provoke a global Jihadist terror backlash. Not to mention their leftist collaborators screaming “Western imperialism” and “colonialism.”

        Uhm…what you mean a global jihadist backlash? There already is a global jihadist backlash that has been ongoing since way before 9/11, but it is so weak and feeble that it is hardly noticeable unless you pay close attention to such things. Indeed, it manifest today throughout the Middle East through the formation of ISIS, for instance, and in other countries through Boko Hiram and many other jihadists groups that are dedicated to waging jihad violently and also reliving the past glory days of Islam. Indeed, the Shi’a state of Iran is dedicated to waging jihad via nuclear weapons one day.

        It also manifest throughout the infidel world via mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage that is really stealth jihad waged non-violently by design for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our society and for eventual demographic conquest.

        Indeed, that latter type of non-violent jihad is the Islamic totalitarian world’s equivalent to the old Communist Soviet Union’s Cold War. Indeed, non-violent jihad relative to violent jihad is astronomically far more prevalent and also represents an exponentially far greater threat for the infidel world at large relative to violent jihad. For instance, unless something drastic happens near term, several Euroloon countries in Europe will become majority Islamic countries in the second half of this century.

        Not to mention their leftist collaborators screaming “Western imperialism” and “colonialism.”

        That is manifestation of conflating what is really jihad, which is a holy war waged by all Muslims against all infidels in the world, with being terrorism. Hence, because terrorism has traditionally been perpetrated by only a small minority of radicals and extremists for as many causes as there have been perpetrators, the left and its collaborators can claim that what are really jihad attacks, but are misconstrued by them as being terrorist attacks, are because of “Western Imperialism, Colonialism, Poverty and Despair, America’s Interventionist Foreign Policies, Blowback, and on and on and on again ad nauseum. Indeed, Obama’s claim that ISIS is not Islamic is part of that scam. The remedy for that nonsense is the irrefutable undeniable truth.

        There is an easy fix for that nonsense, for instance, call acts of jihad whether of the violent variety or the non-violent variety what they actually are, and jihad in stark contrast to terrorism, is always and only in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme and is always and only perpetrated by Muslims alone.

        Indeed, it is a completely exclusive manifestation unique to Islamic totalitarian society alone. Thus, if it is called jihad and only jihad, which is what it actually is, then it is always and only for the cause of making Islam and its followers supreme, as opposed to all that other nonsense associated with terrorism.

        Muslims aren’t terrorists. Instead, they are jihadists, and, indeed, every Muslim on the planet, as opposed to only a few radicals and extremists as in the case of terrorism, are jihadists in one form or another per the dictates of Islam. As a matter of fact, all non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are executed for either blasphemy, apostasy, or both according to the dictates of Islam.

        Furthermore, Muslims don’t target and kill innocent civilian infidels in cold-blood because they are terrorists, they kill innocent civilian infidels in cold-blood because, first of all, they are waging jihad against all infidels in the world, which includes innocent civilian infidels and, second of all, because defenseless civilian infidels make the easiest and most convenient targets for them. Especially because they are not trained and equipped to fight back.

        So screw the left and screw their political correctness, which is a smoke screen that hides the truth and prevents common sense. Hence, political correctness must be exposed for what it really is and eliminated by open and honest debate. Then subsequently all people that still insist on practicing it must be shunned and spurned, i.e., political correctness in reverse, and the way to do that is only and always by revealing the truth, as the truth and only the truth shall set us free.

        We also need to have an open and honest debate and dialogue in this country that will expose the foolishness of political correctness where Islam is concerned. As Muslim immigrants, for instance, not only here in America, but also throughout the infidel world as well, are not moderate Muslims who practice a peaceful version of moderate Islam, and that is not very difficult to prove unequivocally. As there is only one version of Islam, mainstream orthodox Islam, because there can only be one version of Islam.

        Moreover, it can also be demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that Islam is not even a religion but instead a draconian form of totalitarianism masquerading as being a religion to dupe its intended victims, i.e., all infidels in the world.

        For instance, can you or anyone else, for that matter, cite just one group of Muslim migrants to the infidel world that have actually assimilated and integrated into infidel society? No you can’t or anyone else, for that matter, because they never assimilate and integrate since that requires them to become infidels, which is an automatic death sentence for them in Islamic totalitarian society.

        Hence, if Muslims don’t ever assimilate and integrate, then why are they migrating to the infidel world to begin with? Obviously it is for the purpose of stealth jihad that is waged by design non-violently in order to infiltrate our society in mass and for the eventual purpose of demographic conquest. Indeed, it’s Islam’s version of the old Communist Soviet Union’s Cold War.

        So we infidels must have the re solve to stay the course and see it through… Not back off at the slightest resistance or terror wave.

        Muslims are not terrorists. Never have been and never will be, as Islamic totalitarian society is totalitarian to the max and all non-conformers in that society are summarily executed. Mislabeling jihadists as being terrorists is a leftwing canard used by the left to blame everything and the kitchen sink for Islamic violence, in order to delude themselves of the harsh realities of Islam.

        Nonetheless, all Muslims in the world are jihadists in one form or another. A tiny minority of them are violent jihadists and the vast overwhelming majority of them are non-violent jihadists waging war (jihad) in the cause of Allah against all infidels to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world. Meanwhile, non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are summarily executed for blasphemy, apostasy, or both according to the dictates of Islam.

        Islam can be crushed and defeated.

        Actually, it can be via my outline above or via the elimination of all Muslims in the world. All it takes is the exercise of a little common sense. However, if we continue to go to war with various jihadists groups that are misconstrued as being terrorist groups, we will continue spinning our wheels for nothing and jihad will remain a perpetual blithe on the world forever.

        • Maquis

          Demographic Jihad is as great a danger to us as a Caliphate, if not more.

      • ObamaYoMoma

        I like the idea, but it would provoke a global Jihadist terror backlash.

        I don’t know about you, but I would rather go to war against poverty stricken jihadists who can’t even afford weapons, than with rich jihadists who can afford mega weapons any day of the week and twice on Sundays. Indeed, that’s the purpose for rendering them into total abject poverty. So that Muslims will be too weak to wage jihad violently and so that Islam can also eventually become discredited in that society.

        • Bamaguje

          I’m not opposed to depriving Muslims of the financial and technological means to wage Jihad. I just pointed out the anticipated difficulties that might cause the lily-livered West to chicken out.

          • ObamaYoMoma

            The reason Americans became so war weary was because they finally figured out that GWB’s strategy in his so-called “War on Terror” was incredibly fantasy based and destined to fail. Indeed, both nation-building missions in Iraq and Afghanistan to lift up Muslims (the eternal mortal enemy of all infidels in the world) out of poverty, because GWB and our illustrious State Department are both incompetent enough to believe that “poverty and despair” are the “root causes” of terrorism, inevitably turned into the two biggest strategic blunders ever in American history. Not to mention that lifting up our eternal mortal enemies wasn’t too bright an idea as well.

            We don’t need to lift up our eternal mortal enemies because that is incredibly counterproductive. We need to eradicate them!

            For all those claiming that we lost Iraq because of Obama, they need to explain also how they don’t consider lifting up our eternal mortal enemies insane. I don’t like Obama either, but it’s not his fault Iraq failed, as that mission was doomed to fail no matter what even before the first shot was ever fired, as it was and still is exceedingly fantasy based.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    Arab Spring huh? Nice.

  • kiwi41

    It would be a lot better to carpet bomb them with napalm and white phosphorus.
    Or just use gas , then their weaponty can be given to the Kurds. Fcuk the UN or Geneva Convention, ISIS are outside the box, all rules to kill them go out the window.

  • Erudite Mavin

    Russians also know a bit about savages, Stalin killed millions of more innocent people than Hitler, another savage.
    The Soviet Army raped it way through Berlin

  • Sturr Junn

    What a nonsense article. Russia is relatively allied with Iran and Syria, the arch-enemies of the Islamic State.