Just to make sure I understand what you say, Slapout: 'destroying Daesh refineries' (cough) - either needed by Syria in the future or run by local Arabs to earn money to survive - and plenty of empty buildings is 'Ring 2' and therefore 'strategy'...?
But, cutting off the supply of that oil to the regime in Damascus and black market (including Daesh supporters) in Turkey - not?
And it is not so that this 'shock & awe' air show - with 'genuine' princes and princessess as secondary characters - is more spectacular for the media than _actually doing something that makes sense_ against the Dash, no matter how little of the Daesh it's hitting?
(For example, and if you 'must' deploy air power because it's so flashy: then at least try interdicting major concentrations of the Daesh west, east and south of Kobane).
Below a photo released by one of Jihadists yesterday, showing the town of Kobane - but also what an open area this is: considering all the UAVs flying there, guess that's making it 'extremely hard' to distinguish the Daesh, its tanks, artillery, and plenty of vehicles, from the YPG and FSyA that are operating no heavy weapons in this part of Syria at all...?
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