News Analysis: Russia Warns U.S. after Downing of Syrian Warplane (Essay Sample)

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News Analysis
Russia Warns U.S after Downing of Syrian Warplane
(/2017/06/19/world/middleeast/russia-syria.html)International relations between Russia and the United States have become strained in recent years. Both countries seem to be at loggerheads about various issues such as the war in Syria. Bilateral communication may have plunged into chaos its lowest point in decades based on the incidents witnessed in recent weeks and months.
On Monday, the long-running feud between the United States and Russia escalated to new levels after a public spat erupted after when Moscow strongly criticized the United States’ military action of destroying a Syrian warplane .The Russian government even intimidated that it would target airplanes from the United States and its close allies if they were found flying to the west of the Euphrates. The Russians also claimed to have discontinued the hotline previously being used by the Russian and American militaries to prevent collisions between airplanes flying through the Syrian airspace (Gordon and Nechepurenko).
Not since 2011, when the civil war began in Syria, has the United States downed a Syrian plane before. This incident, however, occurred again on Sunday, June 18, 2017 after a Syrian Jet bombed the area close to where soldiers supported by America were fighting the Islamic State in Syria. This, however, was not the first major American Military action against the Islamic state as back in April, the US launched a cruise missile as punishment for a nerve gas attack which had killed many civilians. The United States President has given his military commanders even more authority in carrying out any operations they deem necessary against Syria, urging them to encircle the militants and destroy them (Gordon and Nechepurenko).
However, this latest action against Syria has exacerbated the already strained relations between the United States and Russia. In April too, after the missile strike, the Russian military had threatened to suspend the direct telephone communication between the two nation's leadership but the hotline remained open and contacts between the two countries remained cordial at the time. After this strike, Russia...