Trump Thread

[Gilrandir]

Perhaps; Such a response would need Russia to have shared the warning with Assad...no idea if they did.
Syria does have the Pantsyr, supplied by Russia, whether or not Syria had a chance to use it; again I have no idea.
It might be the case that the target was just not worth the expenditure of any ammunition to defend it; airfield? there are more of those, and not like its difficult to make another one; besides Russia has loads of planes :)

AFAIK, Russia was informed by the US about the missile strike and they got their planes and people away from the airfield which was targeted. Russia uses this airfield as a stage one (planes do not "live" there, they come to refuel and the like), so when ALL OF THEM packed and left hastily I don't think Syrians didn't guess the import of this even if they weren't directly told about what was to come.

Besides on one of the pictures of the airfield after the strike an upturned Pantsyr was spotted. So the conclusion is that Russia/Syria did have something to counter the strike with, the question is why they didn't - either they didn't dare or the weapons weren't up to the task (despite the eulogies which had been voiced before).

If I was Ukrainian, I would be deeply worried about Trump's wording (national interest).

Perhaps I missed something, so I'm not worried a bit. If you give details I might start to.