Everybody know the Russians have been arming the Middle East for decades. The problem is now the 0 regime is doing it too. What you are going to end up with is the Middle East with very destructive wartime capabilities BUT willing to use them. The Klingons didn’t look like Muzzies with crabs on their heads on Star Trek for nothin....
Russia also has their only Meditteranean naval base in Syria, at Tartus.