Someone please explain to me like I'm 5 what is going on in Aleppo?

Go big one boom, make people sad.

People hurt, no good no good.

(tear)

so what assad is doing is justified? the way he is doing it is wrong it sounds, but the cause itself is justified? IS he a bad guy? I just watched a few video clips of him and his main points were he likes the US and looks forward to working with trump

The real answer is that Russia has a navy base in Syria, sells a lot of NG to Europe, and likes Assad. The Saudis and Bahrainis (who own us) want to build an NG pipeline through Iraq, Syria, and Turkey to supply Europe (thus totally screwing over the Russians). To do that, they first have to get rid of Assad and install a pro-US government in Syria. But unfortunately for the Bahrainis, Obama is an ineffectual fop, and Assad and Russia will win the war and stay in control.

Qatar pipeline.

Link is to some background on why Syria is in a civil war.

Syria's daddy had some unruly children. Daddy said stop or you will be punished severely. Children said" we don't care." Dady said, "well now you get the belt." Children continued to act up. Kids got way out of hand for dad. Dad called up Uncle Vlad. Uncle Vlad helped Dad. Kids were in deep doo doo.

Muslims being all muslimy......is what some people might say. I would never say anything like that though. Too "triggery".

Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in cahoots with The Muslim Brotherhood, want some pipelines in the region and Syria is in the way.

Obama and Hillary conveniently became pals with Qatar and SA around 2010-11 and we began funding FSA (Free Syrian Army) "Rebels" and a group called The Selefast.

Basically Obama and Hillary hired mercenaries, and secretly also armed them, and these mercenaries turned out to be Al Qaeda. And the Selefast, once we bailed out of Iraq, declared themselves an Islamic State, which we now know as ISIS.

So we funded and armed Al Qaeda and ISIS to try and overthrow Assad at the behest of Qatar and SA.... presumably for access to pipelines and oil once Assad is ousted and replaced with a Muslim Brotherhood puppet.

Except Russia and Iran came in and began helping Assad. Likely because they also want access to oil.

Assad is a Bathist (same as Saddam) - Think mafia boss
Assad is aligned with Iran because the Iranians are Shia Muslims and are the enemy of Saudi Arabia (Sunni Captial of World)
Russia is aligned with the Iranians ( they both hate America)
Putin (world's most powerful mafia leader) has used Syria as a testing ground for new weaponry and wants a larger presence in Middle East and has killed thousands of civilians in the process of "assisting" Assad.
Russia is in the early stages of "blowback" the longer this thing goes. They already lost 1 ambassador and a plane full of civilians, not that Putin gives a shite about them.

man, this is WAY crazier than i thought. I'm almost sorry i asked. Felt like i was better off not knowing.

I've got an idea. Obama can just call Vlad and say 'Cut it out.'