no. this guy is living in a pre-libya reality.

the russians are not going to bend like this again any time in the near future. they understand that appeasement has reached it's limits. they understand that if they don't put up a fight they're going to eventually be negotiating with "terrorists" on the outskirts of moscow.

the reason the united states did not invade syria was because russia would have treated it like the uk treated germany invading poland.

the calculus of a single global superpower is over now. get your head around it.

put another way, the russians put down their own red line, and the americans wisely decided against crossing it.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/11/obama_adviser_extremism_possible_key_to_ending_syrian_civil_war