Well, Putin is running low on cash I think.
A year ago this was more affordable.
The petroleum giveth and the petroleum taketh away.
you may be right but what does it really cost?
He has munitions inventory out the wazoo. He has a standing military that must be fed and paid any way. Casualties have been low, He has fuel for free.
I don’t see much cost at all above and beyond the normal support.
The expended munitions provide jobs for the people that make them
The Generals from Africa and South America that visited the war zone to see the weapons in action might actually buy something they see and then actually pay for it.
Putin’s sales gambit thus paid off. The foray into Syria was in reality a live fire sales presentation
Agreed. He’s running out of money.
Agreed plus Europe is not longer going to take any more “refugees”. They finally got wise to Putin flooding the country with more Muslim welfare cases.
Russia floats its own currency, which makes the decline in oil price much less damaging than say a country which pegs its currency to the USD.