What is your theory on why the US and its allies have been trying to oust Assad? I’m assuming that after John Kerry’s Syria attack trial balloon was flatly rejected in 2013 they have been moving against him covertly. If it isn’t oil and gas or the means to deliver them to markets, do you think it is control of nearly all states around the Mediterranean?
Same as in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, and Yemen. It’s all part of Obama’s “Arab Spring” policy of replacing dictators with democratic elections.
Which is to say, it’s all FUBAR nonsense foreign policy. De-colonization gone wild.