If largely authentic, the article would be a planned and filtered release by the FSB. Read with that in mind the article points to a probable ground operation involving Turkey and Saudi Arabia. With Assad gone, having troops on the ground would be the only way to ensure some form of civil order while reconstructing some form of moderate regime as (reportedly alluded to) by Bandar.
At the same time, China, India and Japan will now getting wooed by the Security Council as per this article with a goal of shifting the Russian position a tad.
