I wish we had a President.
That many is probably an exaggeration but the threat alone will have an effective propaganda effect.
The logistics and costs of 300 missions per day will be staggering. They can also expect increased losses due to accidents and oversights.
This should be a fascinating look at how the Russians will perform under a wartime scenario. I hope our side is watching closely. (Ordinarily, I could feel assured they would. But the assets required to watch, their deployment, maintenance, fuel and associated costs must be approved eventually by the President. I don’t think he cares what advantage it would give the military and future presidents.)
There seems to be some genuine surprise at how well the latest-gen Russian equipment is working in Syria.
They didn’t send the Monkey guns, but top-line stuff.
The SU-34 seems to be the most surprising of all.
They are flying sorties 3-4 times a day, DAILY, over long periods, without major maintenance breaks. Try that in most of the NATO fleet.
If anyone were to have a plan for wiping out swaths of people, the Russians would be the ones...
Another article from a foreign paper
It’s interesting how US media has dialed back the coverage of Russia’s Syria mission. I suspect that means they’re succeeding, so America’s pro-jihadi media has lost interest
-—[Medvedev] claims that President Vladimir Putin told him: ‘If we don’t destroy these terrorists there, they will come to Russia.’-—
That sounds eerily similar to “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here” (GWB)
The difference is Putin is actually ‘fighting them’, whereas we we wasted preciuous time trying to comply with self-defeating rules of engagement and political correctness to placate CAIR.
Aleppo will be telling. If the Syrian Army stalemates here, with Russia, “conducting 300 missions a day” then this is going to get interesting...especially the Russian spin.
300 sorties per day? It’s still that target rich of a battlespace? It must be true what they say about the accuracy of Russian munitions.
it is an escalation, indeed
whether it is ‘shocking’ or not depends on the observer
I for one never expected Russia to defend Syria with Obama-style We Are Here To Lose “rules of engagement”
I expected when Russia went in, they’d go in to win
so, the escalation does not shock me one whit
(whether I like everything that’s going down, no... but that is another matter that depends on the observer.. meaning, it, like “shocking,” is not news)
America supports your efforts, Putin. We may not trust you as far as we can throw you but we trust you more than our own president who’s too busy terrorizing his own citizens to worry about stopping terrorism overseas...
This level of operations can’t be right.
It doesn’t leave time for the troops’ diversity training, anti-sexual harassment training, and LGBT sensitivity training.
Rock on Putey.
‘If we don’t destroy these terrorists there, they will come to Russia.’
The Euros have been battling these savages for 1500 years.
When they lost:
Christians and Jews could not bear arms — Muslims could;
Christians and Jews could not ride horses — Muslims could;
Christians and Jews had to get permission to build — Muslims did not;
Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not;
Christians could not proselytize — Muslims could;
Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters when they paid their taxes; and
Christians and Jews had to live under the law set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law.
Over the last several years our government has managed to lose tons of military equipment and munitions to the head-slicers, including Abrams tanks, crew-served weapons and fully automatic small arms, that we taxpayers paid for ...
but here at home, Obama—who is not, I repeat, not a (cough) muslim—seems determined to deprive Americans of the semi-auto `poodle-shooters’ that we paid for.
Oh yeah, the first meeting between east and west?
Thermopylae
Go Vlad. Put the hurt on `em.
Hey Vlad! The rebel HQ is at 1600 Penn Ave DC!
This is going to ruin Obama’s golf game.
Allah Akbar mother f****s.
But what are they doing about Climate Change?
I strongly approve:
1. Wipe out everything you hit so that there are no survivors to learn from experience.
2. Hit them so often that they do not even have time to learn from the deaths of their fellow terrorists.