Syria is not a Russian ‘pet project’. It is an ally of Russia and it is also home to Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean and therefore it is a strategic asset.
Russia has a long established and well defined national security interest in Syria and the Obama/McCain cabal that armed ISIS in the hope that ISIS would oust Assad threatened Russia’s national security.
I don’t have to agree with Russia, I don’t have to like Russia.
But I do have to recognize that a nuclear armed superpower is getting pissed off at us for killing their citizens in a country where we have no compelling national security interests.
President Trump needs to keep his promise and extract the USA from Obama’s War.
One of the most offensive things you can say to a Russian, especially born before 1990 is “Cold War is over.”
Know this from experience.
Syrian base, Crimea...not enough. Not the end game.
The agenda is wanting to avenge the fall of the Soviet Union. Options/Economic resources are limited so they are going to do whatever it takes to destabilize things in our path so that we take notice. Everything is designed to cross paths with us. If its not Syria, it will be something else. Please remember that.
They know nothing will escalate too much due to our fear of nuclear war.
So create just enough of a mess to catch us off guard to distract us from our own pressing agendas back home. Lest we forget big powerful Russia again!
Its childish, but thats how their leaders think especially.