Don't Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria (Op-ed)

[TomSea]

Don't Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria (Op-ed)
Mattis gave Putin "plausible deniability" for a military assault that went badly awry

AP / TASS

(Bloomberg) — If you've been listening just to the Kremlin and the Pentagon, you probably didn't know that Russia attacked American forces and their allies in Syria last week, suffering heavy casualties.

Yes, all sides admit that there was an incident at a U.S. base in Deir Ezzor. And that elements of the Syrian regime and Shiite militias participated in the assault. The Pentagon and Kremlin both acknowledge that Russian "mercenaries" participated, too. But the line for now is that those contractors had gone rogue, and Moscow didn't know anything about it.

Read more at: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/dont-be-fooled-russia-attacked-us-troops-in-syria-60538

It is interesting that this is from the Moscow Times, though to be fair,  the sources are AP, Bloomberg and even Tass, the latter being the Russian press.

[kevindavis007]

A good Russian is a dead Russian..

[aligncare]

On balance the Russian people are good and decent folks; the Russian government, not so much.

Same can be said about the rest of the world: good folks – lousy governments (U.S. included).