And while many discuss grossly exaggerated (as always) attack on Russian bases. Reality of terrorist acts against civilian targets conveniently "disappears". I explain here, why the events of the last 48 hours are in "preparation" to Istanbul "meeting".
Per RAND latest paper--it is sad, it is incompetent, it is delusional because the USAF and its main "think tank" never encountered serious enemy in the skies since 1950 and in Vietnam this was Air Defense which shook USAF to the core. So, I explain why they will, again, learn absolutely nothing.
UPDATE on numbers: damaged 3 TU 95MC and 2 TU-22M3. One old An-12. Evidently some of the 5 damaged bombers will be repaired.