Losing no, lost yes.
He lost the day he decided to manipulate an internal Syrian conflict in what was already a Russian client state.
His arrogance is stunning. “..sometimes the conversation is different...” IOW, they just can’t understand his brilliance.
This all is perhaps the first break in Hussein’s operation to purify the Middle East for Sunni Islam. It is not good for America’s position in the world to have Russia in control of the ME and with it the Eastern Mediterranean but it is at least different from Hussein’s determination which itself is inimical to American and Infidel interests. Russian intervention might possibly be the one thing that deters an Iranian nuke assault on Israel and DC or NY. Israel could feel constrained to ally with Russia due to the realignment of America away from Israel and civilization and toward the Moslem Brotherhood and ultimately universal Shariah.