"There's a small number of citizen IS supporters and they're now free"
If their numbers are so small, why was the IS a global problem then, a couple of years ago?
If their numbers are so small, why was the IS a global problem then, a couple of years ago?
While the US spend lots of effort on hunting them?
Keeping the flames high, to play firemen?
I don't think that there was a need of more flames, for that theory to be plausible. Occasionally some western weapons likely did found their ways towards IS as well, but they rather captured the bulk of it. Or do you have other sources?