Where is this Russian fear of a US strike coming from? What is going on in Syria?

via Press TV News.

A top Russian general says his country will respond to a US strike on Syria, targeting any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack, if the lives of Russian servicemen are threatened.

“There are many Russian advisers, representatives of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and servicemen in Damascus and at Syrian defense facilities,” the RIA news agency quoted head of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov as saying.

The warning came a day after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Washington was ready to unilaterally "act" against Syria, just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over allegations of a chemical weapons attack.

Story here. 

I found out that Tillerson was fired because he was supposedly working behind the scenes to save the Iran nuke deal.

That properly explains that move, but this one is a mystery.  Nikki has been a neo-con, globalist dream come true.

She is in lockstep with the former administrations policies in Syria and I hate to say but parrots what I'm reading from defense officials.

Are the Russians taking her seriously?

Some of the most strident talk from this administration when it comes to foreign affairs has come from our UN Ambassador.

But this response by the Russians doesn't seem right.  Is their something they're seeing that we're not?