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Originally Posted by sterlingice
If you're Russia, why not pay for foreign soldiers (other than maybe you won't get your money's worth)? The rules you're trying to hold the West to, you don't care about - they're just a tool to use against them and they're dumb enough to fall for it.
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Maybe these Syrians feel like they've been liberated/supported by Russia in the wars inside Syria and now feel the courtesy to return the favor? Many western European countries blindly followed the USA in the invasion of Iraq, regardless whether the means were just. That's what allies sometimes do.