Russia will ensure the survival of Assad in Syria, and thereby establish a permanent military presence.
In direct opposition to US and NATO policy.
The spookiest part is that there will be US and Allied combat aircraft flying combat missions in the same airspace as Russian combat aircraft.
Shooting each others' bad guy.
Sounds like another conflict from south east Asia from almost 50 years ago...
What NATO policy? This is way beyond NATO’s authority and region of influence. I don’t think, with the exception of France, no one in Europe wants to get involved in this mess.
I’ll go ahead and predict within a hundred days....some US unmanned drone will be shot down by the Russians. Some hostility will brew up, and we will go into some weird reactionary phase against the Russians. Oddly, they are the only stabilizing force in Syria currently. Whatever the US and the Saudis did in the beginning to create ISIS and it’s threat in the region....that really was a five-star screw-up.