The Russian air force has just begun bombing rebel positions around the city of Homs in Syria. The ostensible justification for the Russian involvement, which now involves more than 30 combat aircraft in the country, is to battle ISIS. But of course ISIS is nowhere near Homs. The rebels that the Russians are actually bombing appear to be American-supplied fighters.
This will come as a surprise only to someone who has just arrived from the moon and has no idea of who Vladimir Putin is or what he is up to. Apparently such people actually inhabit the senior ranks of our government at this moment. How else to explain the anonymous quotes of injured outrage emanating from government officials? “Russian commanders are ignoring their own requests for military-to-military ‘de-confliction’ with the U.S. as their warplanes attack Syrian resistance fighters Wednesday, a defense official told Politico. “It completely bypasses every bit of legitimate discussion we’ve had with them so far.”
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