Strategy of tension

Many headlines spouting that kind of news today. Anthony already caught on to the misdirection contained in those headlines.

It surely seems Syrian Army has made gains in Aleppo.NYT's had begrudgingly acknowledged the gains- Russia Makes an Impact in Syrian Battle for Control of Aleppo

Plus, as mentioned by an anonymous commenter, the deployment of A-10's to Incirlik.Keeping in mind all the drama surrounded a  Russian drone allegedly being shot down?Two US drone crash/fails, that didn't get reported on anywhere until now:Janes

There is news, I'd bookmarked yesterday, that Russia intercepted Israeli planes over LebanonThis is the second time this very similar news has been reported.Is Israel testing Russian response? Spying? Or  perception management?

Vital background from previous post: Syria:Russian Technology to Impede Communications/Circumvent the TOW Missiles

 Miami Herald

In a major boost for forces fighting Islamic State extremists in Syria but likely to stir controversy with NATO ally Turkey, the United States on Monday began airdropping pallets of weapons and ammunition to a Syrian Kurdish militia and allied Arab forces in northern Syria.

The US arming Kurds to "fight" the US/Israel/NATO proxy of ISIS- War theatre!

In the post :ISIS "Big Win/Advance" in Aleppo? - Rebel Burgers!  I tried & hopefully succeeded in getting across the fact that there is no difference between any of the 'brand' rebels using the hamburger as an analogy. This news article, linked and featured below,  which I'd hoped to post yesterday will bolster the  facts and enlighten further.

As predicted in the earlier post! No crystal ball required.

Excerpt from Asia TimesI've omitted the first third of the article.

I stumbled across a rather large and interesting article posted at, new to me, site called FoxTrot Alpha    The excerpted information seems to be a compliment to my previous post Russia building an A2/AD Bubble over Syria/LevantLooking for some input from the more military minded per