By the time French President François Hollande landed in Washington to drum up support for a grand anti-IS group coalition, the hard reality of regional rivalries had trumped compassion over the Paris attacks. Turkey downed a Russian jet after Ankara claimed it violated its airspace. Vladimir Putin has warned of "serious consequences". Hence the main question: a grand coalition, but with whom?
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