Russia doesn’t seem very effective in removing ISIS...or landing safely on an aircraft carrier
That Russia never bothered with aircraft carriers and pilots with those skills is pretty good evidence that Russia saw its military as national defense and never had imperialist intentions. I.e., didn't intend take its show on the road and be a bludgeon for geo-strategic stop-and-frisks. But don't tell the neocons this, they'll have an aneurysm.
If they were willing to kill more civilians and some US troops they might kill more ISIS
Palmyra and the oil fields were liberated of ISIS almost 7 months ago
Aleppo is tightening - Assad will win
But then The US brokers a deal for evacuations of “ moderate rebels” and their “ families” out of Aleppo and Mosul, the USAF bombs the shit out of an Iraq army unit blocking ISIS escape from Mosul , obama signs an eo authorizing weapons for “ foreign forces” operating in SYRIA and bada bing
thousands of vermin head for Raqqa and Palmyra, hiding among civilians , UNESCO sites and in proximity to the oil fields
What a coinky dink