[jonascord]

Islam has had 14 years of coasting under the threat of US retaliation. Russia doesn't have the White Hat image to maintain.

As has been pointed out, Russia has 20,000,000 Muslims that might need an object lesson on the costs of defying Moscow.

[PIF]

They got a pretty good lesson in Chechnya ... it didn’t take apparently, so whatever was done there will have to done ten fold in the Sinai. See lots of Toss-1s on the ground plus regular visits from Russia’s 37th Air Army.