Remember that red line that Obama chalked into the sand concerning Syria? You know, the one that was so Twizzler bendy that Assad waltzed over it? Well, Assad isn’t the only one that thought Obama’s stompy-foot declaration was full of hot air. Just days after an awkwardly “cordial” meeting at the United Nations, a certain Russian President is once again schooling this Administration in the art of aggression – and its not pretty.

By now we’ve all seen the news of Russia sending planes over Syria to target and take out ISIS compounds and its fighters.

I’m sure I’m not the only one of our readers who’ve thought this was all a little too good to be true. Sure enough, the other shoe is cannonballing toward us at a high rate of speed. First we have reports of the U.S. being ordered to stand down … BY Russia.

The development came after Pentagon officials, in a development first reported by Fox News, brushed aside an official request, or “demarche,” from Russia to clear air space over northern Syria, where Moscow said it intended to conduct airstrikes against ISIS on behalf of Assad, according to sources who spoke to Fox News. The request was made in a heated discussion between a Russian three-star general and U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Baghdad, sources said.

“If you have forces in the area we request they leave,” said the general, who used the word “please” in the contentious encounter.