Poll: Does ISIS act of their own agency, or are they a mercenary group?

[DavidB.]

Those pro-Russia conspiracy theorists always fail to explain why some of the biggest ISIS terrorist attacks took place in countries like France and Belgium, which are part of the heart of the West?

Instead, when ISIS attacks in the West, we hear a different story from the pro-Russian conspiracy theorists, depending on their target audience. When the target audience is leftist, they will regurgitate the Third Worldist line of reasoning that the West has been mean to the entire 'non-West' (which of course is a monolith), of which Russia is supposedly obviously part and the big defender. When the target audience is right-wing, they will focus on how Russia is supposedly a bulwark of Christianity, tradition and order.