With eight years of Obama’s dithering, kicking the can down the road, and surrendering, there is no telling what kind of clean up efforts the United States will have to undertake.
For the entire history of American intervention in the Middle East, a principle tenant of American policy was to keep Russia out of the Middle East. Obama let them in. They will have to be gotten out somehow.
I agree up to a point. It's true that no president since WWII would have let Russia get this kind of foothold in the M.E. But Russia is now firmly entrenched. How, short of all out war with Russia, do you think we get them out now? I think they're there to stay.