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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 3464436" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>It sounds impressive, but it actually accomplished very little:</p><p><em>Hours after the U.S. missile strike, Syrian government's warplanes took off from the Shayrat base to attack rebel positions again, including the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun" target="_blank">Khan Shaykhun</a>. Commentators attributed the ability of the Syrian government to continue to operate from the base to the fact that the US gave Russia, Syria's ally, an advanced warning regarding the strike, which enabled Syrians to shelter many of its aircraft from the attack.Within a day of the attack, Russia announced it would strengthen Syria's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_defense" target="_blank">air defenses</a> and formally notified the Pentagon that as of 21:00 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" target="_blank">GMT</a> (00:00 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Time" target="_blank">Moscow Time</a>, 8 April 2017), Russia had suspended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Russia_Memorandum_of_Mutual_Understanding" target="_blank">U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Mutual Understanding</a>, which had established a hotline between the countries′ militaries designed to avoid collisions between their aircraft over Syria. As a result, Belgium suspended its air operations in Syria,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike#cite_note-56" target="_blank">[56]</a> and the US began limiting itself to only the most essential air strikes.</em></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>2017 Shayrat missile strike</strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 3464436, member: 4805"] It sounds impressive, but it actually accomplished very little: [I]Hours after the U.S. missile strike, Syrian government's warplanes took off from the Shayrat base to attack rebel positions again, including the town of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun']Khan Shaykhun[/URL]. Commentators attributed the ability of the Syrian government to continue to operate from the base to the fact that the US gave Russia, Syria's ally, an advanced warning regarding the strike, which enabled Syrians to shelter many of its aircraft from the attack.Within a day of the attack, Russia announced it would strengthen Syria's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_defense']air defenses[/URL] and formally notified the Pentagon that as of 21:00 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time']GMT[/URL] (00:00 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Time']Moscow Time[/URL], 8 April 2017), Russia had suspended the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Russia_Memorandum_of_Mutual_Understanding']U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Mutual Understanding[/URL], which had established a hotline between the countries′ militaries designed to avoid collisions between their aircraft over Syria. As a result, Belgium suspended its air operations in Syria,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike#cite_note-56'][56][/URL] and the US began limiting itself to only the most essential air strikes.[/I] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike'][SIZE=6][B]2017 Shayrat missile strike[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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