Since Monday, the Russian forces have performed 134 combat sorties, targeting 449 objects across eight Syrian provinces, including Raqqa, the de-facto ISIS capital.
That’s a leader! not the pussyfooting passive aggressive mozlim loving jerk that we have.
Russians do understand the concept of total war. No compromise, no self-handicapping through overly solicitous “rules of engagement”, no sanctuary, no conditions for surrender by the other side, and should the situation arise, take as few prisoners as practical, even none at all.
Prisoners just clutter up the housekeeping after the battle. Have to keep them locked up in some kind of cage, requiring guards to watch over them, and feeding them just subtracts from rations available to your own side. And they can be incredibly dirty.
Actually, 134 sorties over a four day period is what the US military would call an extremely light air campaign. About 36 sorties per day.
Not to diminish the effort of itself, but by comparison, during the first 30 days of Iraqi Freedom, US aircraft flew over 41,400 sorties, or over 1,350 per day.
That’s just the facts