As Russian presence continues in Syria, the Internet is responding in the way it always does. Hashtags are taking flight, statements uploaded and a collection of political caricatures erected that cut through the Twitter storm of competing sides.
Moscow sent warplanes into Syria last week, grinding the conflict into a new era defined by fresh alliances, mumblings of ground troops and a whole lot more questions about what to do next.
Under the hashtag #PutinBombingSyria, social media is bringing slapstick memes, shotty photoshop jobs of Vladimir Putin's face on various different of bodies, digs on President Obama's 2013 'Red Line' convictions and harrowing reminders of what five years of war has looked like in Syria.
They're funny, clever and heartbreaking. And they're coming from all sides of the conflict.
Have a look at some of them below.
#PutinBombingSyria by applying scorched earth policy. #USAccomplice #SyriaCrisis pic.twitter.com/JHVEueFl2j
— د.عبدالله العمـادي (@Abdulla_Alamadi) October 6, 2015@MarkGaleotti @MoscowTimes Syria next Chernobyl #PutinBombingSyria Refugee problem solved pic.twitter.com/0GuApXplMQ
— Clark Williams (@Knight276) October 6, 2015#SecurityCouncil dont you think that syrians have enough killer Plane above their #head? #PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/4JKkNpiV7s
— Melanie Penner (@meljenp) October 5, 2015My my my.. fellow Americans. pic.twitter.com/pWs9P8yaKy
— Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith) October 4, 2015Russian occupation in #Syria "We will organize free elections once we'll get rid of all opponents"#PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/pUCYumtiFk
— @Bivi (@Bivi_17) October 5, 2015@stevej132 @LindaSuhler lol no wonder #PutinBombingSyria is now #leaderex2015 pic.twitter.com/2XJRipU81S
— carátula (@BhattNaturally1) October 4, 2015.@UN #PutinBombingSyria is not a solution. #NOFLYZONE is the only solution. #CNN pic.twitter.com/kzm5tV720v
— Global Revolution TV (@GlobalRevLive) October 3, 2015#Russian children hospital. Sorry kids but we need all money to bomb #Syria #PutinKills #PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/htQDcciH4J
— SaveAleppo (@LydisDeckers) October 5, 2015Doctor Assad can you give some glasses to your friend #Putin? #PutinBombingSyria in wrong place. pic.twitter.com/gUT0xIT9Om
— GlobalOccupyMedia (@GOccupyMedia) October 3, 2015#RestrainTheVeto to free Syria from ISIS Iran Assad and Putin terrorism. #PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/lMocg0ofAd
— hDes Allimes Hélène (@muzahara2) October 3, 2015.@POTUS your #Redlines are here, if you are looking for them... #PutinBombingSyria #Bbc #News pic.twitter.com/HDJBr6MIlo
— hDes Allimes Hélène (@muzahara2) October 3, 2015@UN stop #PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/teMsnVsiUd
— Abu Eljood (@Abu_Eljood) October 6, 2015#PutinBombingSyria pic.twitter.com/IZx27cHklH
— आर्यपुत्र (@Veer_Yoddha) October 6, 2015
