Adam Berry/Getty Photos WASHINGTON AND THE Earth Syria is not a zero-sum video game involving Russia and the United States, so let us stop talking about it that way. American foreign plan elites are in close to-unanimous arrangement that President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of troops from northern Syria, along with the ensuing influx of Russian and Syrian troops, is a “gift to Putin.” Some variant of that phrase has in excess of the past two months appeared in headlines from the venerable New York Periods, the venerable Foreign Affairs, and the quasi-venerable CNN, amongst other mainstream stores. more âº