"Putin has the right idea......squash them all, and restore peace.....then have an election to replace Assad."
The last bit is the key - that is the crux of it all and of course there is one other massive hidden problem lurking behind all of this - Iran.
Iran has propped up the brutal minority control by Assad, and Russia and Iran are pally pally (geopolitically speaking). So in order to have an election to replace Assad - and presumably the majority of the place will still be Sunni and want to vote in a Sunni leader - how do you think that Iran might react to this? Do you think once all the nutjobs are rooted out, that Iran will happily waltz back home? Their rationale for being in Syria is to extend their alternate Caliphate and to run a bloc right through to the Mediterranean and south through Lebanon.
So given all the talk of US strategic interests, how about let's discuss the other strategic interests for a moment. Does one imagine that the Russians will turf the Iranians out of Syria and does one imagine that the Iranians will happily just disappear?
Time for Putin to have a proper heart-to-heart with Obama (unfortunately no other choice here) and to jointly do what is right. Wouldn't it be amazing if an Islamic roadblock flag was jointly flown from the White House and the Kremlin. That would stop everyone in their tracks.
Can't they just get on with it and share the spoils!
Unfortunately, I cannot see Russia and the USA on a united Middle Eastern platform, but I guess stranger things have happened.
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