There's suspicion that the Rooskys sold them air defense systems that were purchased from Big Lots.Bah, those warships come and go in both sides all the time, its just grandstanding. Point is the Russians haven't signaled anything to the Americans or the Europeans. The Russians themselves have predicted that the Assad regime could fall anytime and are basically expecting it to happen. They're not counting on Aasad being around much longer. And neither have the US, the Europeans or Israel hinted at anything serious action against the Syrians, as ling as they dont use chemical weapons.Is that why they got two warships off their coast and are guarding all their chemical WMD's?Arab / Muslim dictatorships aren't really allies that Russia or China or anybody would go to war over. That's another thing you know nothing about. Reason being they have no honor or allegiance to anybody.
If they are not allies, why did they warn the US handsoff?
These random airstrikes don't add up to a hill of beans. Israel has struck Syria's secret nuclear sites and other targets many times over the last few years. The Russians said nothing, however it did prove to the Syrians and Iranians that the overpriced supposedly "state of the art" air defense systems the Russians had sold them were useless against the Israeli Air Force.