If the United States wanted to we could clear Russian aircraft out of Syria in a weekend.
I really think a lot of you Putinista's have no actual clue about the relative strength of the Russian armed forces compared to their neighbors, regional powers or the United States.
Russia is not that strong. Only about a quarter of their military can be regarded as first world. They can not project power nearly in the same way we do. They are mostly using dumb bombs and old technology in Syria. Time and time again when their military hardware comes up against what we produce, their stuff loses in embarrassing fashion (obviously much of that is lack of training time, etc).
Putin is doing a pretty good job with a pair of 3's making it look like Russia is strong and mighty again, but most of it is an illusion. If we didn't have an incompetent idiot President in Obama, I don't think Putin would have even gotten away with swiping the Crimea let alone sustaining a civil war in Eastern Ukraine and getting his toes in the water in the Middle East.
I agree with most of your post - but the Russians are not as weak as you think..
The US Air Force would grind Ivan back to the stone ages if we had to.. but they are not weak..
Russia would roll thru turkey in a week if they wanted to..
Russia is the only country fighting against muslims right now and I support that.. and if that makes me bad then so be it.. our president and government is supporting the enemy and it’s disgusting.
ISIS would be the first to disagree with you.
***If the United States wanted to we could clear Russian aircraft out of Syria in a weekend.***
But that’s the part you don’t seem to understand. They don’t want to. They instead want to warn our enemy ahead of time they are going to be bombed to give them time to flee. Luckily they didn’t get ready to bomb our pilots out of the sky during their 45 minute warning.
And maybe you need to grab a history book. The Turks could teach IS a thing or two on torture and murder. Armenian Christians ring a bell to you? And this Ottoman Empire is what Erdogan wants to bring back, only he wants to be head of the Caliph, the next Mohammed. This is what you so vehemently support.
So which is worse, an ex KGB commie or the guy who wants to be the next Mohammed and his delusional, narcissistic world burning, IS creating friend Obama?