Eastern Med, port of Tartus, access to Black Sea, counter to US presence in Iraq and ties to Saudi. Syria is a Russia arms client. Syria and Russia have common interests in containing and defeating extremist sunni Islamism
Syria has been a Russian client and ally for decades
We have no hounds in that hunt
Except we now work at the bidding of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and McCain and the neocons have a personal vendetta against Putin,
“the neocons have a personal vendetta against Putin,”
You got that right! The nationalist Putin was the greatest impediment to the globalist vision, Bush’s New World Order for a while.....now they have Brexit, Trump, & many European nationalist movements ruining their Orwellian scheme.....
Our armed forces have become proxies of Saudi Arabia under Obama/Clinton. Thank God for Trump.