Russia were invited to Syria, the USA was not, the USA is instrumental in funding terrorists there against Assad, the same can not be said with regards to Russia, the pipeline deal is pure fiction as Russia agreed and signed/sealed a deal for a pipeline via Turkish waters. Russia had a military base in Syria before this even started and needed to protect said base, as unlike the USA, they do not have them all over the world.
Europe has never been held hostage to gas via Russia as even Merkel pointed out to Trump, live on TV when he made the mistake of saying the same, I will quote her reply "the gas industry is private property not government owned, we as governments can not tell the free market who to buy or who to not buy from" Of course that angered Trump, his own ignorance forced him to have to put even more sanctions on Russia, which is simply economic warfare, that will end when the $ ceases to be the world reserve currency in the not to distant future. Lets be honest here, if there was no resources in Syria, the USA would not have touched it with a barge pole.
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Let's be honest here the US was holding the valuable real estate in Syria, the rest of it was junk, if they had wanted it they'd kept it.
Russia was involved in Syria then they withdrew when it seemed Assad was getting a upper hand on the rebellion. Then things turned concerning ISIS and the infiltration of them into Syria, whereas Russia, the US and Syria all worked together to contain the threat. You will find plenty of headlines to that effect. This was never about Russia going to go up against US forces in defense of Syria for Assad...that never happened. Basically they are like a bunch of babysitters between the warring factions...the object was to remove ISIS (regardless of the debate of how they sprung up), that objective according to Trump has been achieved...now the question is whose the winner? Assad won against the opposition, every war someone has to be the loser, according to Trump we don't need to be there, we don't get to pick the winner.
perfect, correct in everything