[quote=Kho]
Well, that's one reason, but also the fact that if we don't all do something all non-Slavs, non-Christians in Russia will be slaughtered by the rhetoric I'm reading.[/quote]

A nation flatly declaring a conflict between a Muslim Empire and a Christian Empire to be 'jihad' is inviting China to declare war on Russia on the basis of a non-existent blood connection between the Turks and the Chinese. I don't think there's any word that describes such a scenario better than 'desperation'.