whats the us even doing in syria? (apart from oil grabbing)

Phosphate mining.

prostate mining

Prostitute mining.

lol

>bomb country X

We need to take in refugees from country X!

0 days without neoliberal tricks

Because infantry can't engage artillery and airpower you fucking idiot

If you think an artillery bombardment and airstrike preempting a lone mercenary infantry force's assault on an oil refinery shows military superiority of one nation over another, you are hopelessly lost.

Thats pretty much completely accurate, however im still confused as to why US is even allowed in Syria since i believe they are technically illegally in Syria, which is a sovereign country (Russia is in there legally)

Because legality doesn't matter, laws are followed by those who cannot break them and not followed by those who can.

fair enough

The US is fighting a proxy war in Syria to topple Assad because Assad nationalized Syria's oil industry and bank and the American political establishment which is an apparatus for major firms wants said firms to have access to international markets without competition.

is what a Russian bot or a troll would say.

legality doesn't matter, laws are followed by those who cannot break them and not followed by those who can.

fair enough

not fair at all, actually. btw why hasn't this thread been downvoted yet?

It is surprisingly civil. Maybe because we are all westerners and it does not really concern us directly?

As an American, Russian and American troops exchanging gunfire for the first time in decades very much does concern me directly.

@Clint Eastwood im pretty sure they arent actual Russian army troops and mostly SAA

Still Russian involvement

Yes but its on behalf of the syrian government

The US is fighting a proxy war in Syria to weaken Syria (or even creating a puppet government) and creating an emigration flow to Europe as that is what the people hidden behind the US government want.