Roudy
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Last I checked mot only had Israel sent the Hezbo's packing, hiding behind women and children in apartment buildings, mosques, hospitals, and schools. but it had also turned all of Southern Lebanon and famed Hezbollah strongholds into RUBBLE.10,000 Israelis couldn't dislodge 3,000 Hezbollah militia in 2006 yet you hold your breath for a fight against an equal number of Russians with air cover? Since '73 Israel's conventional forces have proven better suited for killing unarmed civilians while stealing their land and water; Russia puts 300 peacekeepers in the Golan, and Bibi shits his drawers before Putin does.It doesn't matter.Russia has far more conventional muscle than Hezbollah had in 2006.
All that conventional muscle is thousands of miles away and the Russians cannot 'project' that muscle beyond their borders anywhere near as well as they once did.
You can have the biggest muscles on the block but if the object of the exercise is at one end of the block and you are on the other end of the block and cannot get there, your muscle doesn't matter; never mind others who might interfere and very long supply lines.
The Russians might get a Battalion or Brigade inserted over there someplace but it won't be a Division or Corps, which is the minimum they'd need to fight-off the Israelis for a few days until help arrived or until the Israelis overran them.
A Russian brigade commander up against an Israeli brigade would shit his pants and evacuate his unit rather than fight under those conditions.
Especially when there's an Israeli Division or two behind that first Israeli Brigade, with supply lines measured in dozens of miles, versus no reinforcements in sight for the Russian Brigade and a supply line measured in thousands of miles.
And none of that takes into account a mobilization by European NATO, which wants Assad gone, and a mobilization by the United States, which would stand alongside Israel, if the Russians were ever foolish enough to begin combat operations against Israel.
No. The Russians are not going to engage in combat operations against Israel. And, in your place, I would not hold my breath, waiting for that to materialize.
Those poor Hezbos couldn't even find a single street left standing to hold their "victory parade".