Is anyone concerned about the possibility of Russia or China getting involved if the Americans start lobbing bombs into Syria? As far as I can tell the Russians and Americans are already fighting a war by proxy and if the States ups the anti, will Russia or China follow suit?
I am going to guess that stuff like this is not helping things:
It’s not impossible, but I would find it incredibly unlikely.
China and US are too big of trading partners to want to screw that up with a military dustup in some backwards hellhole.
Russia is too busy disintegrating - they only like Syria because Syria buys military hardware from them. Heck, it might be good for Russia - US blows up all the Syrian hardware, Russia makes another sale.
Seems unlikely. What do they have to gain by getting mixed up in this beyond vetoing any UN resolution advocating military action or condemning any unilateral US actions?
China and Russia love nothing better than to see the west spend fortunes on wars in small middle eastern nations that neither one cares very much about.
I am under the impression that Russia is already involved by supply weapons to the Assad Regime. I though they said they would increase their help proportionately to the US involvement.
I’m not convinced of the need for war, but no, I think there’s almost no chance of Russia getting directly involved (in the sense of having the Russian military shooting at the US military).
If US attacks some Syrian tanks and missile batteries (Russian supplied), then Russia will sell them some more. But I don’t see Russia getting in the fight trying to prevent the US from striking those sites.