Trump's Syria move is another inexplicable gift to Putin and will have real human costs, not just destroying American credibility as an ally and provoking issues within NATO (Putin's real dream.)
Americans want to disentangle from foreign wars and huge military spending. But power abhors a vacuum and Americans aren't going to like the new-old world order of regional power struggles & global instability.
As the world's largest economy, no nation benefits more than the US from stability & being a reliable ally. Putin & other dictatorships want a purely transactional model, based not on shared values but on quid pro quo, to coin a phrase.
