Which has NOTHING absolutely NOTHING to do with anything I said. That there are evil people in Syria is not an excuse to barrel-bomb civilians, you fucking lowlife traitor.
Syrian Civil war is one of attrition -that's why most of the county is in rubble .
Assad has a shortage of bombs. It's why he uses barrel bombs.
If you had any clue about how "civilian" buildings are embedded with jihadists you wouldn't be bleating about "bombing civilians".
It's a nasty cauldron. There are no clean hands, and to pretend Assad is more evil then al Nusra or various jihadi is stupidly disengenuous
Do you just skim CFR magazine ? ( Foreign Affairs) because you consistently cannot put ideas in context
So what does Putin give up during the negotiations? In the end, Putin gets a slap on the wrist, untold billions in sanction relief, and he gets to keep Crimea, gets to continue his hacking campaign, gets to keep his strategic proxy in Syria, etc., etc., and the US gets.... WHAT? A partner in the war on terror? God you are a fucking idiot.
Europe gets Nordstream 2, we get to stop spending exorbitant amounts on Cold War 2
we cancel the European Reassurance Initiative deployments.
Europe gets a cooling of tensions,and a stable Ukraine ( the war in Donbass is bloody).
everybody wins when there is less military staging and tensions.
I suppose you are a neocon who can't understand peace dividends, but thankfully there are still some that do.
Russia is in the driver's seat in Syria, but if we find more areas of cooperation like the cease fire
we might get them to loose their hold on Assad.
But nothing happens anywhere with the status quo