“so don’t look for any military interventions until after the election”
Depends on what you mean by intervention. I will be surprised if Trump lets shooting those drones down go unanswered. And it should be fairly soon.
Trump is more like Reagan than like Bush or Liz’s father. Reagan was a noninterventionist. Even after the Soviets shot down a passenger airliner he didn’t retaliate militarily. But he still won the Cold War. In contrast, the Bush-Cheney interventionism has cost a lot of lives, but hasn’t won any wars
Trump is smart enough to see that the Cheney way is the wrong way