Why Russia, unlike the United States, has a better chance of success in the fight against ISIS
Unlike Western countries, Russia can coordinate strikes from the Syrian army, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports.
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The publication recalls that the Russian Federation is not the first world power to intend to solve the ISIS problem with the help of air strikes and asks the question: why should Russia succeed in what America failed to do?
“Yes, during the American bombing, the territory under the control of ISIS increased by many thousands of square kilometers,” an anonymous interlocutor from the closest circle of the Russian President admitted in a conversation with a MK journalist. “But air strikes are only effective if they are coordinated with the actions of ground military units. Russia is the only force in the world willing to coordinate its airstrikes with the only force in Syria that is actually fighting ISIS on the ground: the Syrian government army.”
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