“I disagree that Russia played an important role in this process; the Turkish Islamist ideology possesses enough explanatory power on its own, and the timeline doesn’t seem to fit. (Not that I’m particularly fond of the Russian regime; I simply disagree with your a-la Athanasian Creed: “There is the Russian problem, and there is the Turkish problem, and yet there are not two problems, but one problem.” Finally, a Belmont Clubber other than X and maybe Kinu asks for evidence that the Russkies are involved, in the crisis du jour rather than just bloviating. Or was it all the money from those half naked Russian tourists sunning themselves in all-inclusive Antalya that somehow funds the evildoers?