RizzyKing

Putin and russia are also throwing arms around it's not purely a US or western thing even now containers of weapons and munitions arrive in syria courtesy of vlad and many of them have ended up in isis hands as well. Syria is a goldmine for russia a perfect testing ground for some of their latest weapon systems, a good source of income from arm sales and the appearence of russia playing a part internationally there is nothing benevolent about this on Russia's part whatsoever.

We have massively mishandled things in the middle east and will be paying that cost in many ways for at least a couple of decades and sadly we're likely to keep mishandling it trying to rectify what we screwed up in the first place.