{"id":62231,"date":"2015-10-08T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62231"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:19:20","slug":"russia-fires-cruise-missiles-at-syrian-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62231","title":{"rendered":"Russia fires cruise missiles at Syrian rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Fox broadcast news, the Russians have employed cruise missiles in their current strike against Syrian rebels. They’ve also begun shadowing US drone operations with their MIGs. AFP<\/a> reports that the Russians claim that they have weakened ISIS forces, but the US defense officials report that 90% of the Russian airstrikes have been against non-ISIS forces (US-supported rebels).<\/p>\n

Tensions between Russia and NATO member Turkey shot up this week after Russian aircraft infringed on Turkish airspace at least twice.<\/p>\n

The Russian air war has provided cover for Assad’s ground troops, who have previously lost swathes of the country to IS and other fighters seeking to topple him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, according to Fox News<\/a>, Congress is investigating whether US intelligence agencies dropped the ball predicting Russian intentions in the area.<\/p>\n

The officials told Reuters that intelligence analysts were specifically caught off guard at the speed and aggression of Russia’s use of air power, as well as the Moscow’s targeting of Western-backed rebel groups as opposed to the Islamic State terror organization (ISIS).<\/p>\n

“They saw some of this going on but didn’t appreciate the magnitude,” one official told Reuters. One source suggested that U.S. experts initially thought that Russian military buildup near the Syrian port of Latakia was for a snap military exercise as opposed to a prolonged show of force. Another source told Reuters that there had been a lag time of “about a week” before spy agencies began voicing alarm about Russian military operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t what they could have missed. There were news reports weeks before the first airstrike was launched by the Russians of the arrival of fighters to SYria. Even the President, who gets his news from the media,, not from his intelligence services, according to him, should have seen the Russian intervention coming. Russia is not in the habit of deploying troops they don’t plan on using. That seems to be a strictly American trait.<\/p>\n

Now Fox is reporting that the Iranians lobbied Russia for their engagement in Syria months ago. The situation certainly needed some leadership, it only stands to reason that Russia would step into the breach left by Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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