You have to “plan” to use force against them of course... but Syria is the LAST place to do it.
I’m with you on this. Best reply so far.
The option of using force in any way against Putin and the Russian Federation in any way will not even exist until some time after the Current Regime has departed from the Oval Orifice.
It would take a while to purge the upper ranks of the military of the politically-correct and experiment-minded officers and civilian administrators, and simultaneously, gear up the weapons modernization and deployment plans now gathering dust in some file cabinet or data base.
Syria will only be a milepost back there somewhere in relation to where the world shall be in 2017.