Any idea why, with ISIS eating his lunch, Assad would turn his military on an enemy that could so easily wipe him out? This doesn’t make sense to me.
“Any idea why, with ISIS eating his lunch, Assad would turn his military on an enemy that could so easily wipe him out? This doesn’t make sense to me.”
He’s hoping Israel will hit his “allies” . Hezbollah and the others are no more his allies than ISIS. Assad is a lonely player in all of this. He is an Alawite, and they will suffer the same fate as the Yazidhis and Christians.
If the report is accurate in that the targets were fixed Syrian gun positions then I’d guess that Bibi sees an opportunity , in exchange for a little provocation, to move the Golan border a little more Northeast. Israel could use the farmland and he wouldn’t want to see that usable land in the hands of ISIS/Iran. It’s also a fine way to press the point with Asshat-—he can watch his flush- toilet- free zone shrink before his eyes.