Russia is day by day losing the capability to be relevant in Syria. Russia is seen to be weak in Ukraine and just ignorable bluster in Syria.
The Iranian surrogate Hezbollah seems to be more of an Israeli problem in Syria than a toothless Russia
Which is exactly why Putin will want to prove something by its proxies, Hizbollah and Hamas. He’ll show those Jooos! what it is to stab their benefactor and friend Vladimir Putin in the back! So they’ll get some missiles, better than the crap they make from sewer pipes in Ghaza. OK. We can take it. But Jpost could have STFU and saved us all some grief.