I just came across this handy little video on BBC urdu’s youtube page explaining who, exactly, is fighting whom in Syria. The situation over there is far from simple, and I must admit that I don’t understand it. Who are all these groups, and why are some good and others bad? Aren’t they all equally bad. If we’re all fighting ISIS, why did Turkey down a Russian warplane this morning? Either that implies they think these ISIS have planes now, or they knew who they were firing upon. Putin seems to be playing at something – he knows what he’s doing, but what is his game? It’s a great big mess; although it’s two thousand miles away, with Putin seemingly using it to reestablish Russia as a world power, it seems to be getting more complex and more dangerous by the day.