How is Russia possible to answer to US strikes in Syria?

Russia has lengthy been threatening the US with « serious penalties » to its missile strikes against the Syrian regime over the alleged chemical assault within the riot-held city of Douma.

Speaking after the US air raid on Saturday, Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to Washington, reiterated that « such actions is possibly now now not left with out penalties ».

On the other hand, Lawrence Korb, fashioned US assistant secretary of defence, urged Al Jazeera that Russia’s reaction would most possibly be little to the public condemnation since the Pentagon did now now not goal the Russian protection pressure positions.

The foremost few hours after the strike indicated that Moscow was indeed taking that route.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin condemned the air raid in an announcement printed on the Kremlin’s online net page with out pointing out any plans for a retaliation. He stated that Moscow known as an urgent UN Security Council meeting to focus on about the pattern.

Assertion by the Ambassador Antonov on the strikes on #Syria:
A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions is possibly now now not left with out penalties.
All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris. pic.twitter.com/QEmWEffUzx

— Russia in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) April 14, 2018

The Russian media was spreading data on Saturday that the US strike geared in direction of preventing the investigators from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), who arrived within the nation, from conducting a probe into the alleged exercise of chemical weapons in Douma.

A form of voicing the accusation within the Russian press on Saturday was Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian parliament’s committee on foreign affairs.

« Washington and its allies strive and duvet up their traces within the case of faking the gas assault in Syria’s Douma, » he stated.

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Fuad Shahbazov, a security and protection pressure expert focusing on Russia and the Center East primarily primarily based in Azerbaijan, urged Al Jazeera that Moscow is unlikely to limit itself to the anti-US rhetoric.

« [Russia’s response] will encompass missile assaults against opposition forces and protection pressure positions of the US special forces, » he stated.

Nonetheless a lengthy-time length floor operation against the rebels was highly unlikely, in line with Shahbazov.

Russia sees Saturday’s missile strike by the US and its French and British allies because the West’s response to Moscow’s rising perform on this planet, stated Sergei Markov, a Russian political analyst and a fashioned member of Putin’s United Russia Birthday celebration.

« Quickly, you would possibly per chance read within the Western press that the West handed over Syria to Putin. And that it cannot manufacture something against Assad and obtained off with symbolic strikes for saving its face. »

Sergei Markov, a Russian political analyst

« This strike was, on the initiating, performed against Russia’s rising perform on this planet. Militarily, it’s a strike against Syria. Nonetheless politically, it’s a strike against Russia, » he stated.

« Russia was warned about the assault upfront. The territory where the Russian protection pressure bases would possibly per chance per chance be found had been now now not touched. This means that the US, Britain and France strive and forestall a protection pressure difference with Russia in Syria. Right here’s sexy. »

He indicated that Moscow did now now not even must answer militarily on legend of the US strike was so powerful of a failure that it was « the sound of a closing door by the Americans who are leaving Syria ».

« Quickly, you would possibly per chance read within the Western press that the West handed over Syria to Putin. And that it cannot manufacture something against Assad and obtained off with symbolic strikes for saving its face. »