Thread: 'Putin’s Syria role deserving of Nobel Peace Prize' - RT

I really think it's silly of RT to bang on about Putin deserving the Nobel Peace prize.
It's not really "the done thing" for a state media channel to do.

Secondly - I think everybody knows that only people who are doing the bidding of the West, or are nice symbols that appeal to the West get the Nobel prize. So it's completely pointless. However it gives fodder to those who like to say that RT is Putin's propaganda channel and similar accusations.

The only way Putin can get the Nobel Peace prize is to allow Russia can become a Western puppet state, and/or have its resources exploited by Western (read American) companies. I really can't remember but I am guessing that either Yeltsin or Gorbachev got the Nobel Peace prize....

This said - Russia and Putin has been right all along about Syria, and I think even a lot of the Russia-haters can't help but notice that.

I am not too sure whether it's such a good idea for Russia to get actively involved in the war in Syria (i.e. Russian bombing just started today).

Remember Afghanistan, huh, Russia? War against crazy islamic fundamentalists...? Afghanistan was bordering the USSR and the Afghan gov't asked for help.

What happens when Russians start coming home as invalids and Russians get captured and beheaded by ISIS?
This might possibly be a milestone though: to show that Russia is back in business as a major player in world politics. Russia needs to be very careful how it's handling this new state of affairs.

In Sweden, we have a sort of "national" debating forum, and in the "Russia" section there is normally 90% anti-Russia, anti-Putin posts, normally (due to media in Sweden being very anti-Russia).

However I noticed that the threads about Syria and Russia are now full of "Thanks Russia, go Putin", "Go Ivan, give these assholes what they deserve (i.e. ISIS)" and "Finally a superpower cleans up this snakepit". "I'm beginning to like Putin" and similar comments.

Don't know what to think about this view of things.
Hopefully this would lead the (mostly immature) people commenting to re-evaluate their biaised and erroneous view of Russia and Putin.

But they forget, or don't realise that Russia was against foreign meddling in Syria in the first place!
If the West had listened to Russia on this matter in the first place, there wouldn't even be a war there now! Assad would have stopped the protests and things would have remained as they were - i.e. stable and perfectly adequate by Middle Eastern standards.

This situation needs to be resolved NOW. I don't think anyone reading this realises the rate at which refugees are pouring into Western Europe from the Middle East right now.
Germany received 285,000 in just a month. Sweden, receives several thousand a day and several cities have turned into Middle Eastern ghettos.

The US did this to us, by starting the wars that are now generating refugees. Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. In the extension also Somalia. These are the exact places the refugees come from. Every Western European country now has a large sub-culture of middle eastern and African muslims. We don't recognise our own countries anymore. These people mostly don't integrate and live on benefits for years, or forever.

If Russia is going to wager war in Syria, they better win it pretty darn quick so that the outflow of refugees stops. No endless Afghanistan type war. Win fast or leave it alone.
I am not convinced that Russia is doing the right thing about getting involved in Syria.