[AdmSmith]

A friendly question: Perhaps yo can ask your colleagues if this is an exist strategy for Russia in Syria:

President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Russian air strikes in Syria would last as long as was necessary to punish those guilty of blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, an incident in which 224 people were killed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/23/us-mideast-crisis-syria-putin-idUSKBN0TC1LR20151123

[Trumpinator]

Exit you mean?

Russia wants the important parts of Syria ruled by Assad or Assad like loyalists. This way Russia has access to the post and airbase and a buffer state. Russia is there forever now.