Fact: 50% of Russia’s annual budget comes from oil revenue.
Fact: The Saudis have been pumping to keep the price of oil down because they know what it is doing to the Persians and the Russians.
There are reports of 700 Russian tanks and 100,000 Russian troops in Syria, along with 170 bombers. All of this protected by SAMs. ISIS doesn’t have an Air Force.
That is enough firepower and troops to form two Army Corps, and an entire Bomber Group.
They aren’t going after ISIS.
They are there to restore Assad to power and kill Islamic terrorists, something they have a great deal of experience with. To protect their port and fleet, to kill thousands of Chechens fighting against Assad, to restore a million or more in trade with Syria, and to clean up the mess our idiot leadership created. Thank God.
And they will kill Isis when they are done cleaning up the coast where Russians and Assad family are more immediately under threat.