Russia is pushing for war with Russia.
They have golden opportunity to act adult with Trump at the helm, who has extended his arm — and they continue to blow it. And Syria is not even the worst of their little pet projects: the worst is the ridiculousness they’re continuing in Ukraine even *beyond* Crimea. Thousands of their own Slavic brothers and sisters dead in that conflict. And rising.
And their ruble and economy is tumbling down with it. And the only “friend” they have left that isn’t a backwards despotic regime the likes of Iran, North Korea, or Venezuela...is China.
Until Putin leaves, expect this. Blame him.
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.