'We have our plans': Vladimir Putin warns US against Syria military action
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/putin-warns-military-action-syria
Look, whatever, you misunderstood me. Whatever the US is going to do, it is not going to go in to bomb Assad when Putin has specifically sent in Russian personnel. These aren't just proxy forces, or "advisers". These are
Russian pilots, aircraft, troops. Bombing Assad would be a
direct military confrontation with Russia. Clinton might be batshit crazy but she isn't batshit crazy enough to go ahead and bomb Russian personnel, shoot down Russian aircraft. If Putin was so amiable to a western intervention in Syria, he wouldn't move Su-35s in there S-400s. These weapons are not for COIN. They are for aerial warfare with an advanced opponent.
Basically, forget it, Russia proved they are not going to allow a Libya-style decapitation in Syria.