Russian airliner crashes in central Sinai - Egyptian PM

[KRonn]

Can ISIS somehow get China involved? I feel like they are missing here.

This is actually pretty scary. All kinds of great- and regional powers are involved, technically almost-allies but with decidely different agendas, embroiling in an insanely complex factional civil war itself part of a complex regional power struggle. World Wars have started from 10% of such clusterfuck.

It seems that after the Russian airliner downing being confirmed a terrorist attack, and after the Paris attacks, Putin is a lot more inclined to focus attacks on ISIS rather than on Assad's Syrian opponents, if recent news reports are accurate. Russia and the US are saying they're working on a process to remove Assad from power and have elections a year or more from now. That all seems quite new and quite a change that the Russians are in some agreement there. New calls from France for the US, France, Russia to work together against ISIS. So it seems that things are changing a bit significantly and towards more cooperation.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

2 times zero is still zero

Heard on the radio this morning that Russia launched SLCM and Backfire stikes on Raqqa last night.

[grumbler]

Russia says it will double the amount of airstrikes on IS now.

2 times zero is still zero

Beat me to it.