This Is How Russia Handles Terrorists: Moscow Releases Video Of Syria Strikes
Now that Russia has officially begunconducting airstrikes on anti-regime forces operating in Syria,
commentators, pundits, and analysts around the world will be keen to
compare and contrast the results of Moscow’s efforts with the year-old
US-led air campaign against ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq.
Clearly, Russia has a very real incentive to ensure that its airstrikes are effective.
Preserving the global balance of power means preserving the
Assad regime and, by extension, ensuring that Iran maintains its
regional influence.
On the other hand, the US and its regional allies actually have an
incentive to ensure that their airstrikes are minimally effective. That
is, for the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, the idea is not to kill
Frankenstein, but rather to ensure that he doesn’t escape the lab.
As we documented earlier today, Russia wasted no time launching
strikes against anti-regime targets once the country's lawmakers gave
the official go-ahead and the West wasted no time accusing Russia of
breaking protocol by targeting "modetrate" Syrian rebels (like al-Qeada)
that aren't aligned with ISIS.
It's against that backdrop that we present the following footage released by the Russain Ministry of Defense
which depicts the opening salvo in The Kremlin's battle against
terrorism in the Middle East (note the vehicle traveling towards the
compound at a particularly inopportune time towards the end).
“It’s all an information attack, a war, of which we’ve heard so many times,” she added.
Zakharova also said that she was amazed by the scale and
speed of what she called “info injections” into social networks such as
“photos of alleged victims” that appeared on the web as soon as the
Russian operation began.
“What can I say? We all know perfectly how such pictures
are made,” she said, remembering a Hollywood flick ‘Wag the Dog,’ which
described the US media reporting on a fake war in Albania.
