Going to get sporty over there...
Russia can haul all the hardware they want into Syria...As long as there are no more chemical weapons attacks, that’s fine...
Nah. He’s making a big show of moving in all this hardware. That’s to save face. “So there. Now try to take out a chemical weapon stockpile that we swore no longer existed the next time Assad uses it (Gilligan hat slap to Assad off camera).” But he’ll use the hardware against the rebels, sans gratuitous chemical weapons use, and end the whole thing, and treat Syria the same way America treats Japan, as an unsinkable aircraft carrier.