“First we’ll deal with the rebels, then Israel.” -Assad in 2015
https://www.timesofisrael.com/assad-first-well-deal-with-the-rebels-then-israel/
“Syrian president says Jerusalem to be capital of Palestine” (2017)
Israel has defined Iran as its primary enemy leading to this inevitable confrontation.
The Syrian Civil War was part of an anti-Iran strategy using the jihadists of Saudi Arabia, another adversary of Iran.
Syria’s Assad targeted as an ally of Iran to isolate Iran from Syrian bases-Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A strategy that would help Israel’s security interests.
Russia threw a monkey wrench into the plan and during the last Winter Olympics, there just happened to have been the overthrow of a pro-Russian government in Ukraine with all the fallout.
Now we have Winter Olympics again and.......