++After Hollande met with President Obama, he flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin to form an alliance against ISIS.
++This takes place with the background of Turkey downing Russian aircraft in Turkish airspace. Putin then ordered the bombing yesterday of a Turkish aid convoy inside Syria. Putin also sent anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, which will make a no-fly zone almost impossible to create.
++Putin's gripe with Turkey is that ISIS's oil is transported through Turkey to the world market and one of the leading brokers for ISIS is Erogen's son. Also arms are regularly shipped through the Turkish borders on both sides.
++Hollande and Putin agreed that there would be no immediate requests for Assad to step down by both sides indicated he would have to go eventually for a peaceful solution to Syria.
++The actual headline take-away is that Putin agreed to join US airs tikes against ISIS positions--certainly something the American Right will object to but the Obama Administration favors.
++American commentators suggest that Putin has one this round by getting the West to agree that Assad won't immediately go and that Russia has deepened its influence in the region. It is a fact that they have enlarged their Naval base on the Mediterranean and expanded their airfields. But these same commentators don't mention that Assad was unlikely to go anywhere soon anyway.
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