bustr, i believe this is not about Syria only, let's zoom out of the box map; see below; It's a dangerous scheme, cornering the bear standing against NWO with more sanctions every day and military intimidation lately.
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The strategy of containment is...oh....about 70 years old now. I think they have gotten used to it. Most of those US flags on that map show what is very small US contingents that are mostly symbolic and any action taken in those countries would be at the mercy of the Host country.
American deployments are far, far smaller then in '78 when I was in NATO. NATO is far less an offensive threat to Russian then it was then. Militarily speaking.
This has nothing to do with military deployments. Put it this way, since we cant speak of Politics, military deployments and actions of the future will almost certainly have something to do with access to resources. Oil, Natural gas, strategic metals, diamonds, important minerals, food , fresh water...they will almost always be whats hiding behind that Queen on the chess board. Either the resources themselves or the strategic choke points need to secure them.