I agree that Russia is a threat and I’m no putinista like some of the people on here. However Syria and any muslim to me in not worth even in single american life. Strategically we are not locked with the Middle East any more for oil with North American reserves and fracking. With Obama as leader fighting Russians in Syria will be a disaster. Check the Russians and Chinese on the big stuff this however is not it.
The physical oil is only part of the equation. The mandatory exchange of US dollars for that oil is the other part. I would argue that it is a bigger part. We don’t need the oil as you stated but, for the padt 40 years, our entire way of life has risen up around the artificial demand for our dollars. All the welfare, the warfare, the medicare, the social security, the interest payments, all of it is supported by an artificial demand for our dollars. Were that demand to go away, so would everything that it supports. It would be Weimer Republic time. Putin has flatly stated his opposition to the petro dollar and his intent to undermine and he is actively doing just that. whether he is allowed to continue or not remains to be seen. My guess is, immmense pressure is about to be applied to Vlad.