Are you serious? The middle east strife, is being financed by the Russians, through Iran...the Russians covet an natural gas pipeline from the super rich South Pars/North Dome Field. Which Iran shares (sic) with Qatar. That 'is' what the Syrian war really is about...Russia's destabilizing the area. Protecting it's vast investment into monopolizing natural gas on the World Island.
And that is fairly sweet gas...if you know what sweet gas is?

Why do you think they would put S-300's and S-400's in Syria? Why are they selling the future S-500, 600, 700 systems to BRICS partners India and China? The 600 and 700 systems are hypersonic, and nuclear capable (thus the need for an new INF Treaty).

That gas BTW is the largest sweet gas find in history -- 1,800 Trillion cubic/ft; 50 Billion barrels (8 Billion cubic metres) of natural gas condensates -- and to release it, gluts the market and the price of LNG (Luquid Natural Gas) plummets. The Russians as a BRICS nation, has contracted to supply the vast needs of LNG to China. And covets the E.U. market -- and stimulates it with it's weather wars.
This a tag team match to bust the balls of America and bring that economy to collapse. That an act of war. The middle east is a Russian shit storm.

Do you know how much money Russian Oligarchy have invested in gas..? Do you know much money Putin and the St Peterburg mob of 100 or so billionaires raped their own country for...after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Putin is the richest man on the planet...somewhere in the range of $200 Billion -- and that is considered on the light side, if you include the St Peterburg mob's total worth.. All stolen when he ran the KGB -- now turned FSB --stolen from Mother Russia. The Russian Federation is a crime organization. Ever heard of Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky?

The Russians are the biggest mind game going, and they have a lot invested in their 'Fifth Column' -- dumbed down kids, trashing the Christian west for a few rubles...and their brain dead Marxist ideology.

The Russians under Putin have been selling what ever technology they have to the highest bidder. And arms sales are at high with supplying so many factions in the middle east through Iran.