>>8 I'm not so sure about that. I'd like to say that the US will come out on top like it usually does, but with the president we currently have in the white house I'm more worried than not that things will go south for us if we end up in a war with Russia.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-military/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/apr/07/us-syria-response-donald-trump-assad-pentagon-live
^ here are some more recent links on the situaton