[NavyShoe]

The Russian army can’t take care of itself?

[desertsolitaire]

Is their contingent mostly combat soldiers or a heavy mix of REMFs?

[rdcbn1]

The Russian Army can probably take care of itself. Especially after the IAF has destroyed so much of Syrian air and ground power.

The only serious potential adverariesare Israel and Turkey .

Turkey and Russia are actually to a large degree allies.

So now we face a re constituted Islamic Ottoman Empire under the radical leadership Erdogan allied with Russia in the region.

Not sure how this is going to play out.