I hope you’re right. Putin may see this as ‘not taking the bait’ to give Obama a reason to punish Russia if that happened. If Russia knowingly killed our Special Forces team,
John Kerry would run straight to the UN, demanding heavy sanctions and tarrifs against Russia as penalty for their
‘unimaginable cruelty’, as Kerry would describe it.
If the Russians get penalized too heavily, it will financially drain them. Sanctions would slow down or stop their efforts to continue taking The Ukraine and keeping Crimea.
What case could Kerry make to the UN?
The Syrian government recognized by the UN is President Assad’s
When did the US seek or gain Syrian government or UN approval to insert US military forces into Syria ? Under what protections will those US forces operate?
When did the UN give the US permission to remove President Assad by military force- or any other means? The UN investigated the CW attack in 2013 and found considerable evidence it was launched by the FSA, not Assad - however the UN was not given the role of determining guilty party, only confirming that an attack occurred, How ridiculous.