they dont have control of syria iraq and iran i seriously doubt the end gae is only europe, with russia in the middle east forming a coaliation with iran, iraq, hezbollah, the kurds the end game is still to come. the end game is chaos and iran is certainly a country they want to turn upside down russia as well but they are way too powerful and far too intelligent to let these puppeters turn their countries upside down.

putin didn't invade did he? maybe look up the definition of invasion and being invited to help fight. i would assume it would be obvious that russia did not invade syria, they merely they were invited to help fight extremists.