Your answer is just angry, not fact based.
85 percent of Syrians did not want civil war.
Christians were not persecuted.
What has the CIA done to gain your trust? Tap Trump’s incoming administration? Armed “moderates”? Maybe that pic of McCain with “moderates” was photoshopped.
Your are in the wrong decade in your thinking, my friend.
Some people have their heads as far back as the N.Koreans do...so its an easy tell...they haven’t quite reached this decade yet.
Though I have no doubt one day things are going to be so ratchetted up in the ME we’ll see Russia make a move, and that will send him home defeated too...but that time is not here nor will be for quite some time.
Putins problem is he’s so entertwined with ME nations that that very fact gets in his way to what could be better conditions for him throughout the world.....however they are his neighbors so I suppose you have to be to some degree ....and hes cooking with China and other Asian countries as well. No doubt he’s staking his deck.
However he does not want war...but he can certainly be pressured into it as we’ve seen with Syria.