The Russian military refused to buy Putin's excuse for Israel's intentional murder of 15 Russian Air Force personnel. The Russian military knows precisely what happened and has not been hesitant to make completely clear Israel's total betrayal of the Russian government's naive and gullible trust in the criminal state of Israel.

One marvels at the foreign policy incompetence of Putin's civilian advisers. Apparently there is no Russian awareness that the ONLY REASON for Washington's fake "war on terror" is to clear out of the Middle East all governments with foreign policies independent of Washington, governments that are in the way of Israel's expansion. Israel is especially interested to annex southern Lebanon and wants the Hezbollah militia, which Israel has been unable to defeat, out of the way by using Washington to put Syria and Iran into the same chaos as Washington put Iraq and Libya. Once Syria and Iran are in chaos, there is no one left to supply Hezbollah, and Israel can again march into Lebanon.

Does the Russian government not understand that the "terrorists" are Washington's operatives? Washington pretends that some of these "terrorists" are "democratic rebels" opposing the alleged "Syrian dictatorship." Washington pretends that others of its mercenaries are "terrorists," whose presence is Washington's justification for having US military forces in Syria illegally to "fight terrorism," an excuse that has evaporated with Washington's obvious and determined shielding of the remaining al Qaeda, al Nusra, and ISIS forces in Syria. The American neoconservatives, most of whom are Zionists tightly allied with Netanyahu, formulated a doctrine of US world hegemony. This ideological doctrine of "American exceptionalism" serves as a cloak to hide the fact that Washington is serving Israel's interest in the Middle East.

These completely obvious, transparent facts are apparently over the head of Putin's civilian advisors.

Nevertheless, the Israeli murder of the Russian airmen has forced Putin to finally honor his contract with Syria and to supply the S-300 air defense system that Syria paid for but Putin, in deference to the criminal state of Israel, refused to deliver. The S-300 will be delivered in 2 weeks, said the Russian Ministry of Defense. This air defense system will, I think, allow Syria to close its air space to Israeli, US, and NATO aggression without Putin having to declare a no fly zone, an obvious solution that Putin has avoided in dererence to "Russia's American and Israeli partners."

In my opinion, provocations would have been avoided and lives saved, if the Russian government had established a de facto no-fly zone when Russia first came to Syria's aid, and if Russia had stuck with the project to defeat Washington's terrorists without premature withdrawals and ceasefires in the naive hope of obtaining some kind of agreement. How could the Russian government possibly think that any agreement with Washington, Israel, or any of Washington's EU puppets would mean anything? All these Russian hesitations did was to permit Washington to figure out how to interject itself more firmly into Syrian territory. If Russia had acted more decisively and less hesitantly, the Russian airmen and a large number of other people would still be alive.