Not surprising as we did not have a clear goal, clear allies/enemies, and were mostly present. Present for what? In that vacuum, the Russians, with a clear goal, achieved it. We lose.
To a certain degree America’s objectives were not very successfully achieved in Syria but this was by DESIGN by Obama and his surrender monkeys, just like they did in Libya.
We were crippled going in, in part, because we had few actual allies in Syria and we don’t want to piss-off the Turks because of our NATO bases there. Didn’t work.
Now we are not going to put more troops there to held the Kurds fight ISIS and Al Nusra and unless we give the Kurds (covertly), damned good anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, they are going to be severely damaged, if not driven out of Syria and even Iraq.
This article was pretty accurate but remember, Obama never planned for the US to success against our enemies anywhere in the world because he would never let us fight a war to win.
I call this treason.