Complex sentence: It looks like Assad will have some decisions to make and since a pipeline route and his own life and/or his presidency may be at stake, it seems this strike may force together the strangest bedfellows since WW2.
Split into simpler sentences: It looks like Assad will have some decisions to make and since a pipeline route and his own life and/or his presidency may be at stake. This strike may force together the strangest bedfellows since WW2.