perfect sense. the russians and iranians will work cheek by jowl to make sure assad's regime survives. >> very quickly. is russia going in in order to either crush isis, crush the bad opposition, or simply to gain an intractable foothold that everyone else in europe, in the united states, will have to deal with when it comes to trying to find some sort of negotiated solution? >> this is the thing. u.s. intelligence official told the daily beast in this report i put out today that if the russians were coming in just to fight isis that would be one thing but we suspect not. they are coming in to prop up the regime and also as i mentioned earlier, probably to take the fight to rebel groups that frankly the u.s. still relies upon to recruit from. in terms of building up the so-called train and he kwipt program of syrian, sunni, arab rebels that will fight isis. the russians do not consider any opposition other than that which they have approved. in other words, an opposition that exists only in name that is