Over the weekend, Israel carried out attacks against a poultry farm on the Syrian coast, wounding two civilians. Russia issued a statement Monday, warning such attacks are “categorically unacceptable.”
Russia has positions on the Syrian coast, and has warned Israel away from the area before. The latest attack came from the coast, and conspicuously Russia didn’t comment when it happened.
The Russians say it violates Syrian sovereignty, and is against international norms. Those are plainly true things, but have never stopped Israel before.
Israel has shown time and again they’re willing to keep attacking over objections. If Russia decides to flat out stop them militarily, they clearly could, but so far that’s not been the case.
Instead Russia has tried to deter further attacks with air defenses. That’s allowed Syria to intercept more Israeli missiles, but not stop them outright. This warning sounds serious, but so did the last few without any action to stop the attacks.
Global warming must be forcing Israel to double down on its efforts to take Syria’s water.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-708493
Wait… This has all been a war on the “climate crisis emergency?” I thought it was a “biblical prophecy?” Or, to kill Iranians? I really don’t know much but I read somewhere that George Washington once said: “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
Israel Demands Russia Stop Sovereignty-Violating Airstrikes on Ukraine.
Restore the last legal, democratically elected government of Ukraine, and you’d have a valid point.
All Russia has to do is greenlight the Syrians to call for an S-300 response whenever an Israeli jet takes off in Israel. IIRC the S-300 can see most of Israel and hit anything that takes off as well as anything in the near Med or over Lebanon. Drop one Israeli jet – by the S-300 – and this crap will stop.
I wish it were as simple. The Syrians did that in 2018. Israel retaliated and kept bombing Syria while Russia did nothing. Russia calculates that it can’t afford to be seen as tough on Israel. It doesn’t mean the pressure between them is not rising especially with Israel openly supporting Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2018_Israel%E2%80%93Syria_incident
That was in the past. With the war in Ukraine Russia could consider it important to bankrup the west by forcing the flood of more military spending. One also has to consider if the planned Iran attack would be impacted with a major up tick in tensions
Love it.
Israel is a loose cannon and if they keep up these kinds of actions, they will cause a bigger problem, potentially a war, perhaps the kind of war where the other side fights back…
As we’ve agreed on before, Donna, IsraHell will be the cause of WWIII, certainly not Russia.
Now is not a good time for Russia to appear timid. So perhaps the Jewish State will get a little surprize.. Russia is frying big fish now so their deterrence needs to be spill and polish. Letting Israel tweet their nose is not the image Russia is looking to project…!!!!!
Israel will order its lapdog AKA the U S of A to confront the Russians. You can expect another front opened
This is unseemly by Russia … these constant complaints reduce credibility. They should up the ante by installing more S-300s and perhaps S-400s in Syria, take the handcuffs off Syria as well in terms of using them, and work closer with Iran.
This is not a moment for Russia to undertake a new defense commitment, to fighting Israel.
So it will warn. The future will bring a major smackdown, but not for some time. This is just foreshadowing.
Perhaps Russia wants to give Israel Three (3) solid warnings before doing any actions… That way they can say: I told you so…!
Two warnings so far, but Israelis are crazy enough to do the Third strike and like chickens hide behind a passenger jet liner…!