US generals have been pushing for increased military coordination with Russia for some time, and are pushing for a new round of deconfliction talks with Russia centered on Iraq and Syria, hoping to limit the risk of US and Russian planes entering the same airspace and getting in each other’s way.
Officials, the Pentagon is selling it as necessary to protect the pilots from mid-air collision from just happening to smack into Russian planes mid-air, though officials say they’ve had previous incidents where they had to abandon planned strikes because Russia was already carrying out attacks in the same area, and that they might be more efficient working together on what’s getting bombed.
This is complicated by ongoing NATO efforts to reduce cooperation with Russia in every way possible, which is severely limiting the amount of information sharing the two nations are participating in within Syria. Officials concede that the new deconfliction would risk looking like further collaboration.
Which is kind of the point, as some of the Pentagon leadership has been complaining the situation has gone too far, noting that the US and Russian militaries always had direct communication available during the Cold War, in a way that has recently become politically unpopular.
Beware, a sudden outbreak of sanity in our nation’s capitol. Can’t let that happen.
I hope you’re not thinking in terms of the US sharing control over Iraq with China and Russia?
Don’t start thinking in terms of peace because you will just be getting yourself sucked in to buying propaganda.
IF the United States could forget about the north atlantic terrorist organization known as NATO . That alone would save a lot of trouble . It just a gang of criminal countries committing crimes together under herd thinking , thinking that no one will be held accountable .