Russia will never play aggressively or dirty to a point that Americans do. Not under Putin and current leadership. And if they want to win this war in all but name by NATO against Russia. This is what they will have to do.
Russia should not turn into the US or that means they have lost... their soul.... like the west has...
You make it sound like Russia has to defeat the west everywhere... it doesn't.
Russia tried to save Syria but if Syria does not want to save itself what can it do?
Armenia is probably already lost too but they were a pain in the arse anyway... near impossible to reach from a Russian perspective, so if they think their future is with the Europeans and America then that makes it much easier to cut them loose.
These terrorists will be full of themselves and will commit abuses and crimes against the people of Syria and likely attack Iran and Iraq eventually too.
The west has a history of funding scum that eventually turns on them... Osama Bin Laden was a CIA tool that was supposed to destroy the Soviets in Afghanistan.... instead he struck at the heart of America... he actually hit the Pentagon and some commercial buildings in NY... even changed the skyline there.... a fantastic investment for US taxpayers, but they are so ilinformed they have no idea that before he was enemy number one he was your top guy fighting the Rooskies.
BTW I would suggest the days of concessions from Putin are long gone... note they have not approached the west with any peace deals at all and have said for western proposals to be considered they need to make a few concessions... but that is never going to happen so peace talks are unlikely.
Interesting to see all the hohol fans feasting here on their hollow victory
Nothing gets them more revved up really... excellent distraction from what is happening in the Ukraine really.
Finnish media claims that Assad is most likely dead.
Who cares what Finnish media says... these rebels want peace and democracy and really care about human rights..... these are the HATO supported moderate terrorists they keep talking about and keep trying to sell to the western audiences.
It will be interesting to see if this affair, combined with Nagorno-Karabah will leave Russia with image of someone that is abandoning their allies (even if in this thing Iran is a main one to blame) when they need help most. It might resonate badly among Global South countries.
Western funded terrorists can't be stopped by air power, the global south make up their own minds and are not limited to western media sources.
The global south understand this is Israel and the US destroying yet another country and subjecting its people to the horrors of occupation by a foreign power that hates them.
Eventually the western driven bullshit propaganda can be replaced with decent information... it might be most of the same information but I rather doubt it because western propaganda is just bullshit to make their little attack bots dance... we have seen them dancing and crowing on this thread.
Half are fins and half are serbs and an american too, their morality is as dubious as their stability and emotional state.
BTW those suggesting this was agreed to in advance, how could Russia make any agreements at all with the US or Israel or even Turkey for that matter... they all seem to be incapable of agreements.
An example would be if the US said... let us take Assad and Syria and you can have all of the Ukraine.... how could Putin possibly trust them to keep their word?
The Istanbul agreements led to Russia withdrawing its forces from Kiev and was supposed to be part of a peace deal that the Ukrainians then ignored.
Maybe Russia should target military facilities in Israel with Hazelnut?