KiloGolf wrote:.........
So basically, Russians stationed their key anti-IS assets (Hinds, Hokums, etc.) in an airbase that the USN with just 2 destroyers can trash as it pleases.
No, Russia stationed tiny fraction of their anti-IS assets in the airbase that USN needs 2 whole destroyers to strike successfully.
Assets with actual value are stationed at places that would require far larger number of vessels to strike on top of willingness to initiate nuclear war.
KiloGolf wrote:
...... my point was that the Russian posture and position in Syria is very vulnerable to merely some few assets the US can easily deploy in friendly waters, very far away. Makes those kalibr/gunboat videos from the Caspian sea look like a tiny insignificant sideshow and the Russian position in "their part of Syria" rather weak in the eyes of other serious countries (e.g. the PRC)....
Fact that some god forsaken dump in the middle of the desert used almost exclusively by SAA needed 2 full sized destroyers to hit says more about USN than it does about Russia. PRC can watch all they want but they won't be any wiser.
KiloGolf wrote:
.....They haven't thought this through at all, and it took Trump one simple decision to show who's the boss in Syria proper. Shayrat is right bang in the middle of regime-held Syria.....
And nobody gives a shit about Syria to put it bluntly. You are thinking about this like Syrian or Iranian. Don't. Try to think about it as if you were Russian. This was never about Syria. It's about securing strategic assets/bases (already done) and exterminating terrorists (ongoing). Stability, politics, human rights, refugees and all that other crap is just bonus.
KiloGolf wrote:
....Trump upped the game and is in effective control of it now.....
Yes, so much that he has Mattis the Mad Dog going on record yesterday that regime change is not on the menu in addition to making big firework in A-stan as a distraction and immediately revving up NK issue just to tone it down several days later.
Does anyone even talk about Syria/gas/cruise missiles in media anymore little over a week later? Nope, water under the bridge and nice little distraction from domestic issues that did not work at all to alleviate those domestic issues.
KiloGolf wrote:
...... The ball is in Putin's court, and he needs to show what exactly his exit strategy is in Syria, before he leaves office next year.....
Exist strategy for what? They will not be going anywhere for 50-75 years pending contract extension. Putin will be dead and buried long before that.
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