Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Depends on what you consider a success.
A few years ago it could be thought that Syria would end up being a western-friendly puppet backed by the West, Israel and Saudi Arabia it is now a place where Turkey is currently shelling troops that are backed by the USA - both NATO members whilst Saudi Arabia squares off against Iran. They've got their warm water ports for at least the time being at least. They got to try out all sorts of toys on borderline defenceless targets.

So they dropped a load of old ordinance on targets and have got most of the world bickering about Syria rather than talking about how to force Russia to give back the Crimea.