I can't see Trump starting a war with Syria, knowing the chain reaction it could cause and considering that Assad probably didn't do a tenth of what we are accusing him of. There must be something else at play.
It's the same proxy war shit that's been going on for the last 70 years...
Not quite. For the past several decades lefties have been at the wheel. This is the first time we are in charge.
Lefties like Dubya starting the Iraq war while all the pacifist right wingers were in the streets marching against it.
It's not a matter of war or not war. War is a constant. It's a matter of motives, the politics that goes on along with it and competence.
The war in Syria is just a front. Russia is expanding their cheap LNG output via Gazprom to countries like China and Iran. Key pipelines run through parts of Syria. The U.S. doesn't like this expansion, as it directly competes with sales of LNG from the U.S., Qatar and Australia. The U.S. has levied sanctions against Russia in an attempt to thwart LNG construction contracts and slow down their expansion. Needless to say, Russia is getting more and more irritated with U.S. foreign policy.