And you asked yourself the question - why the hell are we going to get into the fights between the Persians and the Jews? What kind of sacrifices would our victims have if we definitely sided with “our” ally of Iran? For example, when clearing the south (they have already forgotten how this operation took place without a bloody showdown) - from our side and from the side of the Syrians and the same - the Iranians? Just because Putin from the very beginning of the Syrian company - managed to choose very correct tactics and conducted a dialogue with everyone, we could do it with such small forces. The Iranians have set themselves the task of destroying Israel and returning the occupied territories to the Palestinians. Here the Arabs themselves from the Arabian Peninsula long ago spat on it and established more or less normal relations with Israel and are trying to seat the Palestinians at the negotiating table and go to compromises - to settle the age-old enmity and live in peace. But no - there appeared such a hegemon in the face of the Persian state, which, in order to prove to the entire Islamic world - who is the true Muslim - is ready to confront the nuclear state, destroying its nation for the sake of its fanaticism and dragging all the surrounding countries into a nuclear conflict! And we as idiots need to contribute to this? But think ahead for years on 15-20 - what then will Iran have the next most important tasks to advance its hegemony - for example, in the post-Soviet space and how will they be consistent with the interests of Russia? Putin has already tried to calm them down so that they stop creating a springboard for strikes against Israel from Syria, but they don’t think to calm down, and they are going to make a suicide bombing country from Syria for the sake of their insane plans. And we need a peaceful life in Syria, and not endless strikes on its territory, which somehow will not stop until the Iranians are operating there, bringing in rockets from which they fire at Israel. In order for our bases to be safe, we need a strong and peaceful Syria, and not a territory that is constantly bombed due to the fact that someone decided - that he has the right to decide - which country has the right to exist, and which - no! We are so hard to restore the army, the military infrastructure of the Syrians, create its air defense, and these Iranian assholes, we are all smeared. Well, at least they made a pause in their “struggle” with the Jews, until they free the territory from igilovtsev and other trash and restore the armed forces, but if not - these idiots will be losing their temper! The worst thing is that the Persians hide their missiles under their noses (i.e. - under the protection of) Russian objects, and the Jews striking them at attacks create a threat to our people. So in the case of IL-20 - what happened happened. Syrians defending one of these Iranian warehouses - fired a volley with an anti-aircraft missile in the vicinity of our aircraft, in the end - our guys 15 passed away. And you offer us to dance to the tune of the Persians, and they always fulfill their obligations to us? Remember how the work of our pilots from the airfield in Iran ended. It only cost the Americans to put pressure on Iranians (and then the Pindos did not withdraw from the agreement on the nuclear deal) and our allies immediately lost the desire to help us, portraying themselves offended by the fact that they were not the first to tell the world about the presence of a Russian aerodrome territory, although it was no longer a secret to the whole world! We need to soberly understand that every player in Syria has its own interests and we need to act only in our own interests and not expose the security of our country, based on falsely understood allied obligations. We are not there to help Iran - to destroy Israel! These are his problems, and ours are to restore order in Syria and gain a foothold in the Mediterranean, to strengthen our strategic position in the world. Also, we do not need confrontation with any of the countries of this region, and even more so with a nuclear power called Israel! The supply of C-300 is a good sobering signal for the Jews, who have gone too far and have ceased to abide by the rules, but at the same time we also need to more soberly assess the risk that Iran’s strengthening positions in Syria bear. And for the safety of our military, we need to develop some kind of boundaries that the Iranians must not cross, so that a tragedy similar to the one that happened with the Il-20 does not happen again.