Just to be clear Russia was Syria (Assad’s) ally, not the U.S. Yes, at one time, the U.S. was kind of Assad’s ally to. But Syria was Russia’s client state, and they were always promising them more weapons, and protecting their integrity.
I only report what I’m told.
Russia’s wonderful weapons including their invinvible anti-air weapons turned out to be Mattel knockoffs of real guns and couldn’t stand up under a little teasing by Israeli F-15s. Is rael, by the way, demonstrates that we wasted a hell of a lot of money on those Do-Eeverything F-35s. when upgrading F-15s as the Israelis continually do is a hell of a lot cheaper and they are better planes.