The U.S. opportunistically expanded its reach by occupying vast territory in the eastern region, rich in oil and gas.
It appears that an understanding was reached between Trump and Putin to trade Syria for Ukraine.
The U.S. has once more shown its global strategic outreach and power projection as a superpower.
Although the battle against Assad is won, another is raging in the north between U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and the Syrian National Army.
[T]he Pentagon's unequivocal objective would be to open a new front against Russia, thus forcing Russia to divert air power from Ukraine[.]
Damascus resembles Berlin in April 1945, when allied forces entered the city: Britain and America from the west and the Soviets from the east.
The effects of what is happening in Syria will ripple throughout the region, even affecting the Russia-Ukraine war.