You can’t chalk this up to stupid. I did the math on this in another thread.
Russia has just moved two armored DIVISIONS and five infantry DIVISIONS, plus an entire bomber WING. That amounts to two full army CORPS.
You don’t need all of that to beat ISIS. You need that to take over the Middle East.
In contrast, there’s a single US Tank Division in Saudi Arabia. 400 tanks. That’s a lot of tanks, and it was what it took to make the Saudis feel alright about its position in their part of the world. They just moved 2 to 1 superiority in tanks to the US, and about 1 to 1 in tanks to the Israelis.
Israel has a combined 9 brigades of tanks - four active and five reserve. They have one active corps consisting of two divisions. A division is the minimum size you need to operate independently as a military force (logistics, etc).
Putin meets with Bibi, says, “We are moving a few guys into Syria, and we don’t want to get into a shooting war with you folks, OK?” Then he moves enough hardware to move his western border from Russia all the way to Normandy, France.
The Chinese have more than enough to move us off the ground in Asia. They may not, as yet, have near enough to keep us out of their pool, but definitely enough to toss us out of Asia - the land mass.
Looks coordinated. If I were Boehner I would burn the place down to get an answer to what we are doing about this. In 1980, we’d be at Defcon 3.
Russia has just moved two armored DIVISIONS and five infantry DIVISIONS, plus an entire bomber WING. That amounts to two full army CORPS. You don’t need all of that to beat ISIS. You need that to take over the Middle East.
Excellent post! Thank you.
Where’s your source for the amount of assets Russia has moved? I’d like to see it.