So what is so bad about Assad, besides he’s against the pipeline that HiLIARy has been trying to push?
He’s a pain in the arse to hegemony goals of saudi qatar and turkey to establish sunni dominance over this region
It’s more than a pipeline, that is just symbol of which tribes which ideology and whose banks dominate the region
Assad’s secular/ Alawite papa had longstanding ties to shia Iran as a counter force to radical Wahhabism and Iran bankrolled the assad regime with oil for many decades
during which Russia was also a Syrian ally to counter the U.S. and Israeli alliance
Assad sr, Qadaffi and Iran challenged saudi/ gulf dominance of opec many times - and you see what happened to Qadaffi
It’s an elaborate geopolitical ballet embracing many shades of Islam, military strategy, and political arrangements driven by western economic interests
Since obama bowed to the house of Saud, it’s obvious our military is expected to support whatever brutes and barbarians can be imported into SYRIA or otherwise hired to take down Assad ... So we train and arm Al Qaeda and ISIS and a ragtag kaleidoscope of 7th century tribal militia Chiefs who yearn for sharia
Assad and Putin really ought to have been Time’s men of the year for blocking Syria from rolling over into chaos and theocratic anarchy which is the strategy the U.S. has chosen to pursue -