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[–] darwin_prime ago
This is essentially cold war 2.0.
Syria is the proxy state through which Putin is trying to diminish U.S. power. The Middle East is a region where the U.S. has been losing its influence for a long time, and Syria is where a close ally and good customer (Al Assad) is. Putin doing this now is for him politically speaking, a very smart play.
The U.S. and Russia are not fighting each other directly, but fighting the other's interests directly. The U.S. has been called out recently for funding ISIS, but this is muddled a little bit by politicized intel as well as something that Russia has also been doing; funding/supporting independent groups as is beneficial to the situation at said given time.