Russians almost consulted with nobody and asked for permission from no one to start a WAR. Guess what, they are making the progress that the U.S and its allies have "tried" to make during the last three years. Russians needed only 3 weeks to make such obvious progress. They did it without involving a lot of politics, unlike the Americans who were doing politics and listening to Saudis for the last 3 years and the results were: ISIS getting bigger and innocent lives were victimized every single day! You may say, "ya, but I suspect the Russians' motives." Why should we care about motives when there is some one like Russia or Iran who can cause the disappearance of ISIS in no time? Iranians, differ from ISIS in their ideology, consider it to be their first enemy and want it to be gone. Russians want to support a dictator, so let it be, who cares, unless our objective now is to deal with dictatorships in the world, not terrorism! In this case we need to create a list of these dictators first. UH OH! the list is so long and some are our "allies"!