I’m sorry I missed that.
I believe they were trying to overthrow Assad in Syria because he was blocking the oil pipeline proposed from the Arabian peninsula to Eastern Europe. The US wants that pipeline and Assad was blocking it, with the support of Putin of Russia. Russia wanted it blocked to maintain a squeeze on Europe for supplying oil to them from Russian oil fields.
It is no coincidence that Ukraine is a pass-through point for the oil from Russia.
Russia blocks the line we want in Syria, we block the line Russia wants in Ukraine.
I all things, follow the money.
I wonder how many people in Ukraine will die because of this power play.
War is failed policy.
Failed policy is Obama.
Thank you for subtly correcting my mistake. It was gun running to Syria, not as I stated in my first post.