Soundwave said:
Because Assad provides Russia with airbases and regional access that Russia likes. So they obviously would prefer to keep Assad in power. Russia will never go to war with the US, they are not stupid, their country would get destroyed. If there was going to be a war there would have been one in the 1960s, and all the crying millenials should maybe realize the 60s was 1000000x more dangerous of a world to live in than today. Today, there's too many wealthy, powerful Russian capitalists who have no incentive to return to a Cold War situation where their finances are locked only into Russia. These people have vacation houses in Florida and New York and London and kids studying over there, and Ferraris and Bentleys, and companies, and they are well tied in to the Russian politcal structure. War in the modern geopolitical context doesn't benefit anyone. It's one thing to go after a bunch of jihadis in caves, but country vs. country conflicts are going to become more and more rare. China would not side with Russia in a real war vs. the US either ... the US buys too many Chinese made goods, they're not going to attack their biggest market, they would cripple their own economy in the process. |