so, what should they be doing?

they should be working with the russians to take out isis, and then helping assad transition. but, of course, this is an obtuse position because it relies on multiple naive assumptions, such as:

1) isis is operating outside of the influence (at least) of us intelligence.
2) assad wants to cling to power.
3) this wasn't always about pushing the russians out in the first place.

i guess the us central command was down to two options: attack the russians (balls out, no bs) or accept strategic defeat and pull back.

they've attacked the russians.

and, the war is on.

canada's role here should be to try and broker a peace deal. this isn't a war that america can win any time soon. so, it has the potential to drain the empire to a point of collapse.

expected conflict points in a hot war with russia are not just syria and ukraine, but afghanistan/iran, the caucasus, the balkans, the baltics, france, scandinavia, north africa, south america and eastern asia.

this was the attack that the americans never launched. they've launched it. it's on.

expect a russian retaliation.