Assad, who had seamlessly fought off siege after siege for over a decade, and had a vice grip on his population, ran in the middle of the night to Moscow. And it happened a little under 2 years after the invasion. Russia couldn’t scramble a crack squad of operators in the area to protect one of very few Russian naval outlets in the Mediterranean. Syria was once thought of as important to Russia as Iran, i dont think that was the case. They were always the baby brother of the terrorist proxy sta…