Yeah...their Spez folks doing FID or foreign internal defense like our SOF does. They'll work with their army to round up the insurgency before it gets going. They'll use their experience in Chechnya to break cells and kill leaders before the West can find a hat to hang their support on. Somebody in the Syrian military made a great call. I'd do the same. The Russians, unlike Obama aren't selling out their allies. Most of the Syrian military is all Russian stuff so they have advisors there anyway.