New War of Oceania

Apparently, those who claims are right: in the modern world, all processes occur an order of magnitude faster, despite the fact that patterns are preserved. Frankly, I assumed that the weeks and months of demonstrative airstrikes in Syria would follow before Russia gets into this conflict and will be doomed to start a ground operation. But less than a week has passed since the beginning of air strikes, and now the ground operation is already on the agenda.

More recently, only Ramzan Kadyrov expressed sadness that only pilots are fighting in Syria and that his glorious army was deprived of the opportunity to go to fight the “shaitans”. But now the important Russian chief, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Admiral Vladimir Komoedov, began to argue that domestic “Komsomol members-volunteers” who wanted to ensure happiness to the Syrian people can no longer be stopped. From his words it follows that the need for the creation of a Russian volunteer brigade or, in extreme cases, a battalion has come. It was immediately said that the fighters that have been bore from idleness in the Donbass can be relocated to Syria. The admiral also suggested that fearless Russian volunteers can also attract a salary for someone else's happiness for other people's happiness (Interfax informs that we are talking about 50 dollars a day).

On the same day, information came that four dozen Islamic groups in Syria turned to the states of the region with an appeal to begin the struggle against the "Russian-Iranian occupation." According to terrorists, our air base was shelling, and a reward of $ 21 thousand was announced for the captivity of the Russian military. It remains only to add leaks from the Pentagon, whose intelligence recorded the nomination of Russian volley systems into the combat zone (earlier the Americans suggested that these RSOs were intended exclusively to protect the air base in Latakia).

Add here a decisive turn of Russian propaganda. It seems that Ernst, together with Dobrodeev and Kulistikov, use the novel “1984” by Orwell as a technical instruction. Everything, the war of our oceania with Eurasia (fascist Ukraine) is completed and forgotten, the victorious operation in the Office began. Maxim Sokolov in Izvestia seriously discusses the goodness of the "small victorious war." However, no one even tries to give at least the appearance of believable relations of the victorious relations of the Ministry of Defense. Well, what airy intelligence can report that the plant for the manufacture of “hunger belts” has been destroyed. What, these same belts explode differently than other ammunition? Or do native drones have the ability to look out the windows and see through the walls?

If the air operation does not ensure the victory of Assad and Iranians, Russian chiefs can take a chance and start a ground operation. There are already deployment plans: they were worked out during the large-scale maneuvers of the Center-2015. First, the Airborne Forces regiment is landed and prepares a bridgehead for the approach of the main forces. Then the division arrives, and behind it the combined arms army. True, it is not very clear how to transfer the infantry. But, in the end, you can requisition civilian aircraft. Transaero again went bankrupt very in time.

The bosses, however, continue to insist: a terrestrial operation in Syria is not planned. True, for some reason the Ministry of Defense was in a hurry to amend the law on punishment for evading participation in military training. Purely peaceful, as you understand ...

Photo: Syria. Latakia. October 5, 2015. Russian multi-purpose fighter Su-30SM at the Khmeimim air base. TASS