Ukraine was Obama and Hillary's big play. What does the average American care about it and Russia's claim to Crimea? Little, I suggest. Nor does the average American care about who runs Syria. They'll care much more that Islamic State is running rampant in the country, and so they should. Again, up to this point events in Syria reflect the foreign policies of Obama and Clinton.

You can hypothesize all you like about what Trump may get from it personally, but it doesn't change the fact that he's staked out a strong foreign policy position that could attract many American voters.