Russia has threatened to target coalition aircraft if they interfere with Syrian and Russian bombing operations in areas where U.S. forces and allies are actively fighting ISIS.
So what? We can target their aircraft just as easily, and shoot theirs down twice as fast. The U.S. Air Force has more recent sustained combat experience with proven equipment.
Putin needs to pull back or his air force will find itself in a war that it can’t win. He’s going to have to accept that U.S. forces are on the ground, and that the U.S. Air Force will defend our personnel and interests in Syria.
A Russian-American air war over Syria benefits no one except ISIS.
I should point out that United States armed forces are definitely fighting ISIS; Russia isn’t, hasn’t and won’t as they’re too busy defending Assad, who will bring them nothing but trouble.
This is Russian bluster, nothing more.
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