After appeasing Syria's enemies on account of Syria for over a decade while claiming to help Russia's only sincere ally in the whole world, Russian President Putin is trying to collect his reward from the Al Qaeda HTS terrorists in Syria, either he's the ultimate naive or he was a part of the conspiracy all along.
He was never there for Syria. Putin was only there for Russian and Israeli interests.
https://www.rt.com/news/325834-russia-strikes-support-fsa/
FSA Cooperation with ISIS 2013
https://syrianwar1.blogspot.com/2019/04/fsa-cooperation-with-isis-2013.html
Photo Proof ~ Identifying the “FSA” ~ [WARNING: Disturbing Images]
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/identifying-fsa/
Interview with captured FSA / ISIS terrorist from Yarmouk Valley, Syria
https://youtu.be/EWjBys2UL6c
Perhaps one could excuse Iran seemingly lack of supporting Assad considering Israeli intense opposition to Iran.
Your points on Russian undermining Assad are consistent with others making similar observations for some years now.
It appears the 3d chess master shared a common approach on Syria with Israel Turkey and US..
Thank you Carina it's all so disheartening. Hope your doing well.