{"id":58769,"date":"2021-07-27T06:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58769"},"modified":"2021-07-27T06:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:05:31","slug":"report-russia-moving-to-curtail-israeli-airstrikes-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58769","title":{"rendered":"Report: Russia Moving to Curtail Israeli Airstrikes on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Report: Russia Moving to Curtail Israeli Airstrikes on Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n

Russia looking to upgrade Syria’s air defense systems<\/span><\/strong><\/header>\n

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With several Israeli airstrikes against Syria seemingly every week, it has come to feel like the new normal. There are rarely serious engagements in Syria\u2019s own war anymore, but airstrikes are consistent, and generally without Israel wanting to comment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tired problem for the region, and Syria\u2019s close ally,\u00a0Russia, appears to have had enough, and intends to take actions<\/a>\u00a0to limit ongoing Israeli raids. This is going to be done largely by way of upgrading Syria\u2019s missile defenses.<\/p>\n

Russia has sold Syria some substantial missile defense systems over the years, with S-300s a big part of the arsenal. Israel is awash in advanced US weapons, the types of which the Russian defensive weapons are meant to counter.<\/p>\n

While Israel doesn\u2019t comment on what it is attacking or why most of the time, they do\u00a0sometimes get angry when their missiles are intercepted<\/a>, and tend to couple any of their attacks with a secondary attack on the missile defense systems.<\/p>\n

Mixed into all these concerns is Israel\u2019s common use of Lebanese airspace, without permission, to attack Syria. This often puts the Israeli warplanes close to Russian bases in Syria, which Russia has warned Israel about a few times.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t always get confirmations on behind-the-scenes talk, but Israel has at times made reference to \u201cunderstandings\u201d they had with Russia, and Russia is now talking about their own sense that the US isn\u2019t going to object if they stop Israeli attacks on Syria.<\/p>\n

That might be surprising, as Israel would probably be unhappy at any limitations of their wars, and would expect the US to go along with them in complaining about that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Report: Russia Moving to Curtail Israeli Airstrikes on Syria Russia looking to upgrade Syria’s air defense systems With several Israeli airstrikes against Syria seemingly every week, it has come to feel like the new normal. There are rarely serious engagements in Syria\u2019s own war anymore, but airstrikes are consistent, and generally without Israel wanting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7364,6400,1049,13009,694,776],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-airstrikes","tag-antiwar-com","tag-israel","tag-jason-ditz","tag-russia","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58770,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions\/58770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}