Well, he gave Assad and Putin plenty of time to get their airplanes and heavy military equipment out of harms way. Such a buffoon.
It has already begun.
If he did that it is to avoid greater casualty and direct confrontation with Russia. They have said they will directly confront American attacks with their own missile defense and
even attacks on Allied forces.
Apparently the Syrian war is lost, Iran, Russia and Syria will basically be dividing up the country. With British and French support, this is an interesting decision to attack and it is difficult to see what the benefit is, other than to really weaken Syrian capabilities as unless the West is willing to go headstrong back in, this war is lost. It will take a few days I suppose to understand what was impacted.
I am not an expert, but, for the first time in my lifetime, I am thinking that there could be direct confrontation between Russian and the U.S military. I will trust the advice of military intel and their recommendations as they have intelligence we do not see.
What were the Russian going to do?
They only have 30 Jets in Syria. Their air defense systems will not
engage coalition forces because our planes will take out their air defense
systems.
The Russians took cover...that is all that happened.
We won't engage Russian forces unless they engage us. They learned
that a month ago when we slaughtered 200 of their mercenaries moving
on our ground forces. They engage us...we return the fire.
The Russians do not want to tangle with us. They are no match for our
military. Thus to keep from being totally embarrassed world wide they would
be forced to resort to Nukes, which ends their country.
With the English and the French joining us, this becomes a proxy NATO
operation. The Russians don't want to tangle with NATO either.
For Russia this is an expensive attack, because them and Iran now have to
help and pay Syria to replenish all they lost tonight. Putin will just spank
Assad and tell him to knock this crap off.
We even used B-1 bombers tonight which are not Stealth. The Russians
didn't bother them either.
When you stand up to Russia and talk their language they will back down
with the best of them. We just need a leader who will stand up to them.
(And we have that now)