"But we really screwed Putin! HH HA HA HA HA!"
Any world leader who trusts the word of the United States while Deep State factions still make the real decisions (a situation likely to change only slightly under Trump) is a fool.
Qatar will get its gas pipeline to Europe, now, and the rebels and the insiders will get rich. Life for the non-Islamist peoples of Syria will get much harder.
The Russians have had one military base at the port there since about 1970. Our government would literally destroy an entire country, hand Christians and the few remaining Jews in Syria over to the Sunni wolves just to stick it to Russia.
I still can’t get over that we flown top cover for Isis/Al-Qaeda.
It’s pretty obvious this offensive to finally take down Syria was launched to beat the clock before Trump takes office. He wasn’t ever a big fan of the Syria project of Bush and Obama.