Alright, here is what I think has happened.
This is basically the result of Obongo's Collosal fuck up.
2010 Arab Spring
Rewind back to the riots in Tunisia where a young man torched himself over his mishandling by corrupte local officials. This guy's name was Mohamed Bouazizi. See video for a brief explenation:
>youtube.com/watch?v=jHw_auqod6Y
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_Revolution
Anyhow, all of North Africa and large part's of the Middle East go up in flames. Protests turn into riots, riots turn into revolts, and these kick of into full blow revolutions. The (((Media))) start reporting how this is great, and now the muslims will have democracy and so on. Americans and Europeans buy into this (myself incuded). What the mdeia doesn't explain is that, when given the choice, muslims will democratically elect hardline islamism, rather than liberalism. This is known as pollitical islam, or sharia.
The "presidents" of muslim nations are infact livelong dictators. Giving themselves the title of president for legitimacy. Many of these presidents are presidents for life, and in some cases their descendants "become" presidents after their fathers pass on. Such is the case of Assad in Syria, or Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Ilham Aliyev in Azerbaijan etc. These dictators have traditionally been extremely anti islamist, as islamists don't share power and are a threat to their lush livelihoods. America stance has been to conveniently ignore the discrepancies' of these "democracies" as the alternative is considered worse.
Anyway, under the impresion that the electorate is onside with the protesters, the Obama administration, in it's infinite wisdom, took the stance that Democracy in the M.E was coming, and therefore the old aliances between the U.S and M.E dictators had to end in order to pave the way for fresh demcracies.
2011 Contagion
The revolts in Tunisia have spread to Lybia, Egypt, Iran and Syria. The Iranians cut that shit fast. Everyone else who is under America's influence as opposed to Russia's, cave to Washingtons pressure.
Bear in mind, that many M.E nations depend on American millitary shite to stay in power, this does not necesarilly mean that they are weak willed. But they know that America could place enbargoes in order to twist the nations into obeying. (Rhodesia and S.A are good examples).
Egypt's president is outsted and put on trial. Gadaffi is beheaded by rebels. Asad looses control of the country and so on.
Arab dicators in several countries begin questioning their alligance to the States. Asad, besieged in his bunker, is probably thinking about that time he laughed at Gadaffi during an Arab conference. (See top video).
Who can the Dictators turn to for protection now?
—— Enter Russia
Putin, not being one to miss a trick, see's Obongo is sacrificing dictators to satisfy his voters (or to stoke his own ego), and decides to take advantage. Russia has been voicing it's discoptent at the growing stockpiles of U.S millitary shit all around it's borders. Putin (claims) that the Ukranian goverment was ilegally ousted in an organised coup directed by external actors (U.S) in order to fuck Russia over. Russia annexed crimea for its naval bases, America sanctions Russia, and so on.
So, Putin want's revenge. He backs Assad. Provides him with all the cover he can muster, he send's in Russian troops disguised as Syrian troops. Etc.
Turkey (Nato) shoot's down a Russian warplane en route to Syria.
An international crisis ensues, but escalation is adverted.
2015 Turkey
Then something happens. Som rag attempts a coup in Turkey to oust Erdogan. Erdogan prevails, send his army to encircle a US millitary base with nukes, and goes on an almighty purge.
Erdogan and Putin become bff's
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Think about that again. Turkey's foreign pollicy does a 180 and exchanges alligance from the States to the Russians.
I have no idea what happened behind the scenes, but it's not impossible that Obongo tried to do some shit in Turkey as he did al over north africa. Maybe the FSB got some top tier secret shit revealing the US's intent to overthrow Erdogan, and Putin then used it to woe Erdogan to side with him.
The Egyptians generals seem to have fallen out of favour with the Americans.
THIS IS ALL OBONGOS DOING