This makes it easy for Russia to drop Assad. Now they can say 'he went too far, he's on his own.'
Then they coordinate strikes with US, letting the Yanks know where Russian assets are so that there are no accidents. Us will be doing all the heavy lifting on the condition that they let Moscow replace Assad with a more palatable guy, but still their guy.
Russia gets rid of a problem while keeping influence.
Russia and US get cozier.
US gets to act like cowboys and scare N Korea.
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