The Russians have a strange policy that when fighting in a foreign land, they actually shoot to kill their enemies. ISIS captured on the battlefield are not shipped off to a far-away government-run madrassa and kept there as political footballs for years on end.
Very strange....
Russian Spetznaz are known for dealing with a hostage situation with the proportion of capturing one of the captors, decapitating them, and throwing the head into the hostage situation, with a very clear message. “Live or die”.
I think it is effective against any opposition, but US lawyers who castrate our troops with rules of engagement seem to think otherwise.
The Russians; I don’t EVER want to fight them. I think THEY are our ultimate enemy, and I think they think the same.
-But think what you may of them, they do NOT operate under the self restricted rules of engagement we seem obligated to work under.