I am a bit envious of Ivan’s ROE’s.
Vlad is a lot like Carl Spackler. Carl knew To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They’re like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.
Watch out because “Russian law”, like “Soviet law” is anything it wants it to be at any time, and you, my friend can be labeled “an enemy of the state” at any time.
Russia has no Rules of Engagement. We saw that in Chechyna and Afghanistan.
What they are doing is to category, according to “Russian law”, any dissidents fighting against Assad, including the good guys (if there are any left).
Give a KGB guy a finger and he’ll take your whole arm off.