That was fast. President Trump led the entire civilized world by sending in 59 cruise missiles to destroy an airfield in Syria to show Assad he needs to stop gassing Syrians and other Arabs. Good.
Putin is sitting on his hands because he knows what President Trump did was right and should have been done years ago. Russia should have stepped up to stop Assad from gassing people. Instead Putin went along with the gassing. Why?

Putin is a small dictator. Russia is not the world power it was when it led the USSR. Indonesia has far more people, 250 million than Russia’s 143 million. So does Brazil with 250 million, India with 1.2 billion is eight times bigger than Russia and China with 1.3 billion is nine times bigger that Putin and Russia.

Of course more people don’t make a nation powerful. America with 319 million has the strongest and most advances military in the world but other countries have militaries large enough to be a problem when they go rogue.


Putin needs to show the Russian people he’s the boss. Russia is still a tyranny even though the Russian people have been desperately trying to gain Liberty which they never had under the Czars and the communists.

Putin however doesn’t trust the Russian people so he believes showing how powerful he is will help him keep power. So he backs Assad and works with Iran against America and Europe.
Putin’s power is partly a sham to keep him in power. Too bad for Putin that President Trump by opposing Putin and Assad in Syria just put Putin in short pants meaning his prestige has been lessened. .

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