I agree. Russia is not economically strong anymore. The old USSR was a much stronger force, but now, not much at all.
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Lol, Russia does not have the means to declare and enforce a no fly zone over Syria. The US could do it, but not Russia.
Sorry for the Putanista’s reading this, but Russia’s military isn’t really all that strong. Only a fraction of it is considered 1st world and even Turkey could chase them out of Syria is they wanted.
Go back to Mecca.
Russia places a few S300 batteries in Syria and now you have a no fly zone from Turkey to northern Iraq and all of Syria. End of game and Putin has balls to do it and now Turkey given a good reason for Russia to arm the Kurds heavily. We should already have been arming the Kurds.
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***Lol, Russia does not have the means to declare and enforce a no fly zone over Syria. The US could do it, but not Russia.
Sorry for the Putanista’s reading this, but Russia’s military isn’t really all that strong. Only a fraction of it is considered 1st world and even Turkey could chase them out of Syria is they wanted.***
I have a feeling before this over you’re not going to think this so “lol.” YOUR politicians and YOUR military isn’t going to protect you from IS. Hell, for the first time in American military history we are actually dropping leaflets warning the ENEMY to leave the area we are about to bomb! Go back and read that again Mr. Longbow. Where’s our leaflets telling us the only “refugees” being let into our country are SUNNI, the only ones in Syria and Iraq who are not being displaced!