Sadly, the U.S. is on the side of the Jihadists. I don’t blame Putin in the least bit.
They are all jihadist to one degree or another.
Each of the (many) factions claim they are the true Islam and the others are infidels and apostates.
I don’t see how we have a dog in this fight. Is it any concern of ours which faction is more pure Islam?
I get that Russia is doing this as a proxy war, but what’s in it for us? It makes no difference to us whether the Shiites or Alawites or Sunnis etc get the upper hand.
Whichever faction gets the upper hand at any particular time will be horrible to the other factions. This is history going back centuries.
Even the Kurds are split between Sunni and Shiite. Who wants in on that?