Isaiah 17:1 - “Woe to Damascus. It has been taken away from being a city, it has become a ruinous heap”.
And .. don’t forget, when this prophecy was given to Isaiah, Damascus was virtually the only city in that region of the desert. There are many more cities now.
I guess it’s no wonder that the Christians are trying to get out of Syria. The Christians leaving Syria was also prophesied, in 1985.
If Russia attacks the US allies in Syria, the natural response is to attack Russia’s allies in Damascus.