The advantage to launching missiles is that it communicates to adversaries "don't fuck with the US".

With referrence to your listed advantages, countries who are tough do not need to demonstate their strengths.  Only nations that are really weak do such things, as in the case of the DPRK's launching ballistic missiles to show how butch they are, when they are really not.


The disadvantage is that the Russians are now motivated to improve the air defenses in Syria who will then drop more gas bombs and might shoot down some of our arsenal.

With the exception of the alleged gas attack attributed to the Syrians, the real disadvantage is setting the stage for a shooting war between the US and Russia that will lead to WWIII.  Humanitarian aid be damned, Syria is not worth getting into WWIII.


The fuckitude escalates...

Better believe it!

I hope you are right and that this attack and potential future military attacks by the US and its allies are not reminiscent to the actions that led to the current Iraq debacle.

I am really curious as to why they made no attempt to shoot down even a handful of missiles if they truly have the weapons to do so? Especially since Trump told Putin to go ahead and try. If the Russians have the opportunity to embarrass us at any turn, I would think they would. Something else we will probably never know.

The reason Russian anti-missile defense systems were not deployed during the US-led missile attack was because none of Russia's military forces were targeted.  The US-led strike was specific in its targets, which was deliberate because the US did not want to face the consequences of hitting anything Russian and, likewise, Russia was probably relieved not being in a situation where their actions could rapidly escalate the conflict between both countries.

The question is if the Russians will now give the Syrians the capability to shoot down our planes and missiles or have we not crossed that line yet.

Russia already has S-400’S in Russia already.

I didn't say they don't have the capability. What I said is will the Russians hand over the weapons to the Syrians to use against us.

I didn't say they don't have the capability. What I said is will the Russians hand over the weapons to the Syrians to use against us.

You mean like how we gave stingers to afghans to use against the soviets?

Neither Russia nor Syria wants any conflict with the US; they just want us to stay out of their business.

Rambo III

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