I think that the events in Syria is just the beginning. While Trump will be engaged in restoring order in Syria, the Russians will open a second front in Libya. Then I think they will destabilize the situation around Iran. Russians do not want peace in the middle East. They will do everything to support the war and not allow middle East countries to trade freely with oil.
This is it: Putinists don't want peace.
However russians aren't putinists, they just saw the worst of the west combined with the worst of the soviet fall... like in the movie avatar, financial raiders meet corrupt kgb thugs under drunken president yeltsin (not drunk by alcohol but by the immensity of the looting operations).
So yes russians want peace but not as slaves of a few greedy oligarchs.
So please distinguish between the putinists and the russians...