Well, so much for kamikaze drones...
Russia deploying nuclear-capable hypersonic missile deploying Tupolev's and KInzahl missile carrting Mig-31's to Latakia and drilling with their naval forces out of Tartus in Syria...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hypersonic-equipped-russian-fighters-land-syria-ahead-mediterranean-drillsThis is a three-fer for the Russians...regional power aimed to keep Syria alive and their influence permanent, a check on USN/USAF movement in Eastern Med and in/out of the Bosphorus and a dagger at the throat of Israel...
As for the latter, no different than putting nukes in Cuba or Ukraine in NATO, eh?
Too bad Turkey sucks, would be the proper counter-move...but cannot put anything there those lunatics could seize and the Russians know it...so pressure falls on USN more than any.
Another reason to sh!tcan NATO...could deploy our own version of a String of Pearls to protect our movements and let the rest take care of themselves...that would be a proper application for stabilization free of Euro-politics and less drain...