RE: None of it is based upon reliable intel but speculation through think tanks and other analysts.
OK, so how does one explain that the Russian S-400 Triumf air-defense system did not work as they warned the USA it would?
Or do we believe that the Russians were IN on this attack ( in other words, it was a Wag the Dog scenario ).
But if it was Wag the Dog, for what reason? To distract from Stormy Daniels?
But why? Why would the UK and France participate in a Wag the Dog scheme?
“OK, so how does one explain that the Russian S-400 Triumf air-defense system did not work as they warned the USA it would?”
How do we know they used it?
“But why? Why would the UK and France participate in a Wag the Dog scheme?”
Consider that they all had enough intel that they were only 60-70% certain Assad did it. Maybe someone else wanted to start a war between the powers to get him ousted. This was tried before in 2013. Consider how Russia has not responded.
” ... how does one explain that the Russian S-400 Triumf air-defense system did not work as they warned the USA it would?”
I don’t think the S-400 was used against the US missile attack in Syria. And, at $200m per system, I don’t blame the Russians for not exposing that system to our countermeasures.
“OK, so how does one explain that the Russian S-400 Triumf air-defense system did not work as they warned the USA it would?”
They didn’t turn it on. That’s how.
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