Russia says ISIS is now on the ropes!

Fighters desert after 60 air strikes in 72 hours.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - October 4, 2015 - One question that’s been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve The Pentagon’s stated goal of “degrading and defeating” ISIS despite the fact that the battle pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes.

Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the Fascist Police States of Amerika isn’t fully committed to the fight. Explanations for that suggestion range from the mainstream (the White House is loath to get the FPSA into another Middle East war) to the “conspiratorial” (the CIA created ISIS and thus doesn’t want to destroy the group due to its value as a strategic asset).

The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under bombardment by the Russian air force.

The answer, apparently, is less than a week.

On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it has conducted 60 bombing runs in 72 hours, hitting more than 50 ISIS targets.

According to the ministry, Islamic State fighters are in a state of panic and more than 600 have deserted.

According to The Kremlin, Su-34s hit an ISIS hardened command center near Raqqah with concrete-piercing BETAB-500s, setting off a series of explosions and fires that completely destroyed the object.

The Russian Defense Ministry has served notice that nothing is going to stop the Russian air force from exterminating Assad's enemies in Syria.

Twenty-four hours a day UAVs are monitoring the situation in the ISIS activity areas. All the detected targets are effectively engaged day and night in any weather conditions.

Now obviously one must consider the source here, but Kremlin spin tactics aside, one cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS in a matter of weeks, which would not only be extremely embarrassing for Washington, but would also effectively prove that the FPSA has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups that Western media claims are the scourge of humanity.