Thanks.
And we must consider the downing of the Russian jet in Syria by manpod. The Russians are not yet through analyzing the event and determining the source of the weapon and those involved in it’s delivery.
Suchkov wrote 2 articles in Al Monitory lately about this. And others are making similar observations. It is interesting to read their analysis, some expression indicates they would like to work jointly on anti-Terrorist efforts with the US but then they go into the anti-US mode for a few lines.
Timing of this is very odd. The 3 high ranking Russian intelligence officers were in the US last week. 2 of the 3 required special clearance because of the sanctions placed on them specifically by Obama near the end of his term.
Each aircraft is precious to the Russians - they have very few actually deployed into Syria, and air support is about their main combat function in Syria.
If MANPADS (MAN-Portable Air Defense Systems, “manpod” is an erroneous spelling) are available to the “rebels” in Idlib, Russian close air support can be removed from the tactical situation (their high altitude bombing is not accurate/effective like American B-52s).
As they say in Chess, Check.
This could potentially drive the Russians to a new strategy, which might have brought them to the US with a proposal (or threat). But there are so many things going on in the world, it could have been anything that brought them here.
Each aircraft is precious to the Russians - they have very few actually deployed into Syria, and air support is about their main combat function in Syria.
If MANPADS (MAN-Portable Air Defense Systems, “manpod” is an erroneous spelling) are available to the “rebels” in Idlib, Russian close air support can be removed from the tactical situation (their high altitude bombing is not accurate/effective like American B-52s).
As they say in Chess, Check.
This could potentially drive the Russians to a new strategy, which might have brought them to the US with a proposal (or threat). But there are so many things going on in the world, it could have been anything that brought them here.