ALERT: Путин рисует линию в песке! Putin risuyet liniyu v peske! (Putin Draws A Line In The Sand!)

Above, a Russian jet that was shot down by Turkey on or about 20 November 2015.

Ken O'Keefe discusses Syria and the Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-sOnmsWivs&feature=youtu.be

South Front update on the war in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POthiR2eZeg&t=54s

Your Watchman will speculate here but I think the Russians believe that if Syria falls then Russia is next on the U.S./NATO menu. I also believe the Russians cannot afford to allow their ally Syria to fall.  I expect the Chinese to be drawn into this quagmire some how or some way. 

Ezekiel 38:4

And I will destroy thee, and put hooks in thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth and all thine host, both horses and horsemen, all clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great multitude with bucklers and shields, all handling swords.

God is drawing the nations to the center of the world - Jerusalem! Will God's "hook" be the tremendous supplies of gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean or Israel's high tech society????? I do not know.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then shall come upon them sudden destruction, as the travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

I have said many times that we would wake up in the morning and find that something earth shattering occurred over night that was certainly the case this morning in Syria..........don't forget this is a Jubilee year and something historical will happen to Israel before the end of the year.

Russia has said it will treat US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces are present as "targets" amid a diplomatic row caused by the downing of a Syrian jet. The country's defense ministry said the change in position would apply to all aircraft, including those operating as part of the US-backed coalition. It will also suspend a hotline between Russia and the US set up to prevent mid-air collisions.

The ministry said in a statement: "All kinds of airborne vehicles, including aircraft and UAVs of the international coalition detected to the west of the Euphrates River will be tracked by the Russian SAM systems as air targets."

The warning followed after a US F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian army SU-22 jet on Sunday in the countryside southwest of Raqqa - the first such downing of a Syrian jet by the US since the start of the country's civil war in 2011.

Russia's Defence Ministry said the suspension of its communication channel with the Americans would begin immediately.

The US did not use its communication channel with Russia ahead of the downing of the Syrian government warplane, the ministry was quoted as saying, accusing the US of a "deliberate failure to make good on its commitments" under the de-confliction deal. 

"The shooting down of a Syrian Air Force jet in Syria’s airspace is a cynical violation of Syria’s sovereignty," the ministry said.

"The US’ repeated combat operations under the guise of ‘combating terrorism’ against the legitimate armed forces of a UN member-country are a flagrant violation of international law and an actual military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic."

Russia, which has been providing air cover for Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, since 2015, has an agreement with the US aimed at preventing incidents involving either country's warplanes engaged in operations in Syria.

Downing the jet was akin to "helping the terrorists that the US is fighting against”, Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, said. 

Ezekiel 38:11

And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land that hath no walled towers: I will go to them that are at rest and dwell in safety, which dwell all without walls, and have neither bars nor gates,