another thing to think of is that Russia, USA, Israel and all puppet states are all in collusion but pretend to fight so they each have boogey men to make the people at home afraid of. Correct that Israel and Russia always had a good relationship. Assad went along with this as it helped him gain support at home "Israel and USA are paying ISIS to attack us so you should support me" WW 1 and 2 and most wars of history are similar. BRICS may or may not become superpowers but for their leaders that is not the main point, enriching themselves and staying in power is like with all elites. Each has USA educated and indoctrinated puppet presidents. All a show, yep.