Russia is now helping Assad with airstrikes
Yep, Russia is now using Russian fighter jets with Russian pilots from a Russian base in Syria to attack ISIS, while Israel is now openly conducting air strikes in Syria. Russia also warned Israel and the U.S. that if nuclear reactors in Syria are targeted, the ONLY response will be nuclear war. Now it is litmus test time, Russia knows damn well ISIS is foreign mercenaries knows damn well it is attacking an American scarecrow and that there will be American casualties. The big question then is: Will the U.S. accept losses to maintain the ruse?
---JIM STONE
Things are picking up, whatever jokes you might have about Russia are irrelevant when they have nukes and excellent submarines. It won't be child's play. One nuclear weapon would wipe out an entire carrier fleet, and if I was Russia, that is all I would do - send things skyward with a nuclear torpedo. All the Navy in the world will not work against that.