The Russians sure get a lot of credit for attacking ISIS when in fact they’re predominately not attacking ISIS. They’re cynically leaving ISIS to assure they’re the only alternative to Assad to make sure Assad’s survival is the only viable one. Anyone who follows whom Russia bombs will see it’s not often ISIS. But you got to give Putin credit, like the communist he’s been most of his life, he’s run an excellent MISO program and fooled a lot of people.
Why is Assad’s survival any of our business?
This scenario keeps replaying over there, and many of us are tired of it. The neocons and HRC were the ones who wanted to be rid of Assad. Trump did not campaign on that, nor on Russia bashing - the opposite actually.