Before the Syrians can have an aircraft carrier, they need to build one. That goes for the Russians, too.
Tons of misinformation and misdirection on the whole Syria/Assad/ISIS issue. For every Kremlin troll advocating Putin’s foreign policy there are 3 or 4 dupes who cite pro-Russian websites as sources. Discouraging.
Assad backed Iraqi Sunni rebels aka Al Quaeda-in-Iraq aka ISIS against US and Coalition forces in Iraq and even sent volunteers and support personnel to Iraq. We collected passports of Syrian KIAs operating away from the Syrian border.
We took a substantial amount of casualties due to Syrian, Iranian and Russian support of both Sunni and Shia rebels in Iraq.
Payback’s a bitch.
Couldn’t give a Rat’s A about Assad, his Iranians or the Russians in Syria. They are all terrorist-support groups who are reaping the whirlwind of the instability in Iraq they promoted from 2004 to 2009.
The hand they fed is biting them.