[TheRealThing]

Al Assad doesn't particularly care about anything but maintaining power, which is to say purse strings. He has authorized gassing his own citizens several times. Inserting into a civil war has proven disastrous historically over and over and over again. Russia wants influence and a presence in the Middle East. We already have it. We blame this President or that. What if, even for a super power nation, short of all out war and overthrow, control of outcomes is limited, particularly when guys like the Kim Jung Un's could care less about the average citizen of their own country.

See Trump's own children's statements about Russian money and Trump's business.

We had it.