>what did anyone expect?
>remember we weren't invited
AFAIK in int'l law we're outside the law - and that is not including the shitheads in our gov funding/training/supporting freaking terrorists!
And that is not to mention the USS Donald Cook incident (real or not) - Russians are very, very advanced with EMP and electronic warfare. Before the USSR fell what they found, developed & were using shocked the living shit out of the West and caused some actual panic. That was then. They survived the attempted rape2.0 and their scientists never stopped working on this (besides psychotronic warfare, but that's a little digression).
I suspect that our POTUS, having cleaned some decks, cut off some funds is now working with Russia as much as possible wrt Syria. We have the same enemy, so we have common cause in this. Of course it has to be back channel, with public sabre-rattling and showy-shows, but our military, once unleashed will not fuck around with the Captagon crazies. But then again, Russia has its own strongly vested interests and in a way it is their 'backyard' (warm water port in Tartus)… so