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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
Regardless of the US either directly or indirectly "supporting" ISIS (ignoring the influence from their foreign policy) we will see how well they are trained or where their commitment level is once the Spetznaz rolls in.
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This.
The Spetznaz are like the Navy Seals without a conscious. The Western conscious combined with Russia severely limiting Western action in Syria has led to ISIS being very sheltered so far.
The Spetznaz are simply not going to respond to ISIS threats to harm civilians and hostages. When Chechnan terrorists held hostages in the Beslan school crisis and the Moscow theatre incident, the Spetznaz just stormed in. They were willing to sacrifice hundreds of Russian civilians in order to provide a heavy handed response. I can only imagine what they'll do to ISIS fighters embedded in areas filled with Syrian civilians.