I may be wrong, but my sense of Russia's interest in Syria is not the oil-and-tactics approach preferred by the U.S. What the Russians want is a warm-water port for their military fleet.MOSCOW (AP) -- The Russian parliament has voted to extend Russia's lease of a naval base in Syria for 49 years following the announcement of a partial pullout of Russian troops from that country.
Et voilà!
I imagine they want lots of things, but a year round port is high on their list, hence the Crimean intervention.
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