But Fitter, have not the west armed rebels/terrorists before? The US did so in Afghanistan in the 1980s and more recently the west has done so in Libya and Syria, arming actual terrorists. In the case of Libya they even attacked said country removing the leadership from power and creating a totally broken and non functioning state in the process. In the case of Syria its Russia who has managed to stop another western war to remove Assad from power and replace him with terrorists.