by James the Russian Analyst April 9, 2017
On Friday April 7, hours after U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck Syria’s Al-Shayrat air base on President Donald J. Trump’s orders, the Russian Defense Ministry gave a presentation pointing out the ‘low combat efficiency’ of the American strikes. Coming as it did on the heels of the U.S. ‘sending a message to Assad’ over Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons Assad hasn’t had (according to U.S. and Russian jointly certified UN inspectors) since they were destroyed in 2014-15, the Russians’ message was intended as a blow to American pride. But was the relatively light damage strike compared to the hype that accompanied it intentional, as many ‘Trump is in cahoots with Putin!’ conspiracy theorists insist? Or was it a 4D chess move to fake out the warmongering legacy media and neocons, while ‘sending China and North Korea a message’ as true believers still on the Trump train contend? And then there’s a third possibility: was the ineffectiveness of the Tomahawk strike the result of Russian electro-magnetic (ECM/EW) warfare of the same type both rumored by the new media and obliquely discussed by American military commanders (mostly in the context of the Ukraine war) since the USS Donald Cook incident three years ago?
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