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Because Russia betrayed them and told them not to. In the same way that Assad could've handled the couple of thousand of rebels but ordered his army to stand down for some reason.
As a general rule of thumb, do not align your country to governments that are militantly antifascist. There is probably a very good reason as to what inspired the weird obsession with nazis and fascism, and the reason very likely contradicts a war with Israel. Militantly so if they have to.