It’s all over but the shouting. Assad is gone. What’s ahead though is unknown, but hopeful.
President Bashar al-Assad fled to an unknown destination as rebels basically walk into Damascus with citizens cheering.
Here is a Syria Live Update courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.
Syrian rebels said they had freed the capital, Damascus, from President Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship after a week of stunning military advances against his forces. Assad fled in the early hours of Sunday local time to an unknown destination, Syrian security officials said.
The rebels: Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, one of the largest rebel groups mounting the offensive against Assad.
Reactions: Residents in Damascus and Homs celebrated in the streets, as some Syrians who supported the rebellion against Assad claimed victory.
What’s next: Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said he was ready to cooperate with any leadership chosen by the people.
Raed Al Saleh, head of the White Helmets, an independent Syrian rescue organization that has led evacuation and rescue efforts in opposition areas for years, said the group would provide emergency relief to families across the country and “help them shake off the dust of war.”
“The chemical regime, the criminal Assad regime has fallen, fallen, fallen,” Saleh said in a video posted on X. “The Syria of peace and civilization will return to you.”
Many Syrians around the world celebrated the entry of rebels into the country’s capital, Damascus, as a victory in a long campaign for greater freedoms after a harsh crackdown that followed a 2011 uprising against the Assad regime.
“I don’t cry often but I cry today,” said Zaher Sahloul, a Syrian-American doctor based in Chicago and co-founder of MedGlobal, a charity providing medical aid in conflict zones, including Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere. “This is a monumental day to all Syrians and people who’ve been watching what’s going on in my homeland for the past 14 years or so, from the beginning of this crisis, when the Syrian people went into the streets asking for freedom and for change of the regime that has been ruling Syria.”
Syrians Celebrate
Syrians celebrated the arrival of opposition fighters in Damascus early Sunday local time.
Five Things to Know
1. Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, one of the largest rebel groups mounting the offensive against the Assad regime.
2. He broke with Islamic State in 2012 and cut ties with al Qaeda in 2016; since then, he has fought both organizations in bloody campaigns.
3. The 42-year-old Jawlani has turned the Islamist group, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, into a disciplined fighting force, with an ideology that blends Islamism and nationalism.
4. After the lightning offensive that saw Jawlani’s forces seize Aleppo, he issued edicts to his Sunni group, ordering the protection of Christians and Shiites, and demanding that his men not exact retribution. “In the future Syria, we believe that diversity is our strength, not a weakness,” he said.
5. It is unclear to what extent Jawlani’s transformation is genuine, and to what extent his appeals to moderation are designed to lull other Syrians and the West into complacency as he pursues his quest to replace the Assad regime.
The above five things according to the Wall Street Journal.
What’s Next?
CBS News reports
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said early Sunday that the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government.
“I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.
I would like to see rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani announce elections a year from now or so.
And we can all hope point number four above is accurate.
Those interested in the background of this story and all the forces involved, please see The Complicated Syria Civil War Mess, What’s Going On?
Syrian Government forces, Turkey, the US, Iran, ISIS remnants, Lebanon, Iran, Russia, and the Kurds are all involved with intertwined and conflicting goals.
—Hope? Rebels?—
Are you hoping for a Libya scenario?
Or perhaps a severe Taliban scenario?
In Aleppo reports are they are taking down the Christmas lighting and decorations and the women need a veil.
—What Rebels?—
These guys were IS, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, whatever.
The videos of the vanguard troops are a veritable Salafi foreign legion.
Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Chechens, Afghans, Pakistani, Tajiks, Albanians.
—What will happen?—
Turkey, the SDF, and Israel will expand their occupation zone in Syria.
Heavy military gear will be destroyed/confiscated; no real State Defence.
If the US leaves (perhaps even if not), Turkey will attack the Kurds.
Turkey will turkify Aleppo & Afrin, like they did with Hatay.
—How will HTS behave?—
Past performance predicts future conduct.
In Idlib they cleaned out competing flavors of jihadi terrorists by internecine murder.
Christian houses were confiscated and given to the foreign horde; the people fled.
Do you think some PR lessons about diversity & inclusion from State officials changed them?
—What then?—
Syria is an impoverished sanctioned fractured country.
There is not much for the international mercenary foreign legion to glean if no longer paid by Turkey/Qatar/America. Where will they set their sights? The Salafists will probably attack Lebanon; they will probably also bring chaos to Western Iraq which will again lose any political equilibrium. But in the end they will probably set their sites on Saudi — their lightning succes in Syria will embolden them to pick a richer target. Don’t forget their true aim is to bring a global caliphate, the rule of Allah everywhere, or to at least to die trying.
—Protests in 2011—
Please remember what the demonstrators in Dar’a were demanding:
Segregated girls schools and wearing the hijab in schools and public functions.
First to be killed by snipers were soldiers.
Within days the “rebels” had tanks and artillery.
Alawites, Christians, Yezidi, Armenians, Druze, Sufi, Assyrians know what is coming.
The world’s oldest Christian communities will be extirpated; the last villages where they still know Aramaic (language Jesus spoke); and treasures from antiquity.
Almost like you are presenting this as another Failure of the US/NATO deep state NeoCon foreign policy initiative.
Where have we come across this before? Oh like everywhere.
Apparently, the Russians arranged side-deals with the rebels to protect their military bases. This explains why Russia stood by as the rebels advanced.
My guess is that Iran also backed off because it got assurances that Shia interests would be protected.
It would not surprise me if Trump was involved at least indirectly providing assurances. I can foresee that, as part of a larger deal, sanctions on Russia will be lifted and Russian gas will be flowing to Europe via Ukraine once again after Biden leaves office. Ukraine will lose four Oblasts and Crimea, but the gas will be flowing again, and the rebuilding can begin.
Saudi Arabia would love to build a gas pipeline to Europe via Syria and Turkey. But it won’t happen with Genocide in Gaza and Apartheid in the West Bank. Can Trump facilitate a grand bargain of some kind that brings peace?
Where’s Col. Flagg (M*A*S*H)? ☮️✝️
Now Tulsi Gabbard can do photo-ops with Assad in Moscow. Intelligence seems not to be her strength.
Spoken like a true chicken hawk who wants to prance around like they’re tough but who in reality has never tasted the ugliness and death and destruction that war brings and would assume the fetal position if they did.
Tulsi understands the wisdom in minding our own business instead of going around the world in search of monsters to destroy. If you are so keen on going abroad in search of monsters, start a Go Fund Me. I’ll donate to your demise.
Being an isolationist is one thing, cavorting with blood-soaked dictators like Assad and Putin is another thing.
Well, another Russian Colonial holding fell. Spectacularly fast this time.
As I explained earlier lost colonial wars have this chain effect on other colonial possessions of imperialist power (Russia in this case).
Ukrainian War is not yet formally lost for Russia, but already they lost:
Central Asia. China is replacing Russia as primary patron for Central Asian dictatorships.
Armenia. Russia betrayed their long term allies in Armenia and Karabach region. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over this region for many years. Russian ‘peacekeepers’ permitted Azeris to conquer region just in 24 hours. Probably as part of deal with Turkey.
Now Russian involvement in Syria is nullified.
Israel and Turkey emerged as winners.
Iran and Russia lost their key ally in region.
Hezbollah in Liban has lost their key land bridge to Iran. Power strengths shifted in Liban overnight.
People asked what Netanyahu was hoping to achieve by ordering strikes on Hezbollah and pager explosions? We have answer now.
How exactly is Syria a colonial holding of Russia? Which 3 letter agency are you with? Or are you GCHQ? Let’s see those teeth.
You forgot that Assad-papa was installed as leftist dictator by Soviet Union? In same way like Qaddafi in Lybia and Saddam in Iraq?
The CIA and Anthony Blinken got their new UBL (Usama Bin Laden) in Syria and its another nice gift wrap disaster from the Birdbrain Biden admin to the Trump Admin.
And get ready for Biden to give blanket pardons to the entire FBI, DOJ, NIH, etc on the morning of 20 January 2025.
Also, the chaos in Syria allows for another humanitarian crisis which brings even more Middle East refugees to WESTERN Europe, and not EASTERN EUROPE and Turkey. The Euro elites like in Green Party of Germany and Soros Jr will love this.
But I believe the crisis will not be export to America as the Hispanic American lobby will say Latin American First in Line (LA FIL) as Trump will tighten down on immigration.
This should be the headline: “US expedites the removal of another foreign leader before Biden exit”
Mish. I’m really surprised by your comments. You sound so uneducated about this. The American government had the Caeser sanctions and stole the country’s oil and wheat. They left little for the people and supported these jihadists.
You are foolish to think that they will “welcome” Israel and the United States. They are next on target list. They will start raiding their neighbors. The poor people of Syria will suffer more and now we will have another exodus to Europe and America.
It’s shocking to see you and others think this is a good thing.
Every country in the Middle East and Africa with straight boundary was f-ed with by the Brits at one time.
No worries. @ FJB he just tweeted corn pop and his gang are on there way
I think Brandon was in the pool and the children were rubbing the hair on his legs before getting ready to sit on his lap. Brandon has hairy legs.
And Brandon likes it when kids sit on his lap.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbE2SmV2bs&pp=ygUQYmlkZW4gaGFpcnkgbGVncw%3D%3D
It’s their fight to wage. Israel hit some targets as Assad was fleeing. They were probably chemical weapons storage sites. Good for Israel.
We have about 900 troops in Syria. They need to stay the course and perform their given objectives, supporting Kurds & fighting ISIS. They’re not there to influence what government rises up.
They are there for the oil, not to support Kurds or fight ISIS.
The troops are on the main highway between Bagdad and Damascus where it crosses into Syria and a few more up north where the other highway that follows the Euphrates river valley from Iraq up into Kurdish territory and on to Aleppo. They effectively block Shia forces from Iraq moving to help Assad’s army. The oil is not for us because we have all we need but for the Kurds to give them a source of income from oil sales from wells in Kurdish lands.
Remember when Dumbya and Cheney put out the evil-doer ‘baseball cards’ – turns out Chemical Ali didn’t have WMDs. Hat tip to Colin Powell, roasting in hell.
Assad is an Alawite religious minority and ruled with an eye to protecting minority rights. As I see Syrians on the news coverage exclaiming “Freedom” I can’t help but believe they’ve exchanged one dictator for another in that stew of hornets.
Religion is a mental illness used to justify evil.
A liberal atheist. What a shock. Hateful too
Only things I hurt are your feelings.
What is evil is cheese with green fungus growing on it but I must admit it tastes good.
Another failed Middle East state coming up
The lightning collapse of the Baath Party state is unprecedented. This is the government & state apparatus that was pushed to the brink in 2014 but fought back to stable supremacy by 2017, controlling all of the big cities and major roads — though still only half of territory and little of the petroleum resources. The question is, why did the regime simply fold?
There was appearance of strength by the Baath. The economy is in shambles thanks to ruthless sanctions upon a devastated war-torn economy. There were daily contacts with HTS on the Idlib frontlines, usually 6-7 artillery duels or airstrikes. Turkey shelled Kurdish positions almost daily as well. Despite this, the Army remained well-manned and supplied. Russian aircraft & Iranian militias kept a sense of strong alliance. Turkish & Russian joint patrols of the northern countryside gave further sense that stability was unshakeable.
Clearly the Army leaders were coopted & knew to lay down their arms ahead of the HTS assault. The powerful fourth division disappeared — it was the backbone of the Baath.
So, whereas the future is very uncertain regarding the Christians who scarcely escaped ferocious persecution from HTS head-choppers back in the earlier part of the civil war, and clung to the Baathist for survival, they are now at the mercy of a power that swore to complete what the Caliphate, the Mamluks, and the Ottomans failed to do: completely annihilate the Christians of the Middle East.
We’ll also see what the United States does now that their beloved Kurds face down the HTS. Already Turkish backed Sunni rebels are attacking Manbij, a Kurdish city under protection of the Baathists & Russians to spare it from Turkish aggression. Those forces have fled, leaving the city open to a bloodbath…
But the recent history is even blanker: what happened to make the Baath collapse? Since Syria’s resilience has been attributed almost exclusively to Putin’s resolve, right from 2015 when Russian airstrikes demolished the ISIS oil caravans into Turkey and spearheaded the Baathist counteroffensive, what will the Russian president say about his own “Afghanistan moment”, ironically only days after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov openly mocked the “embarrassing American retreat” from Afghanistan in 2021 when interviewed by Tucker Carlson?
The US has been overtly and covertly trying to destroy the Baath “party” for well over 20 years.
Oh yes, some Syrians are celebrating. For now.
The Iraqis were celebrating the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The Libyans celebrated the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
Thank You, AMERICA!
Now look at those countries.
Sometimes the devil you know is far less destructive than the chaos and the devil that you don’t know..
Correct. Iraq without Sadam is as bad as Chicago. Tens of thousands of Christians were slaughtered after we “liberated ” Iraq.
To be fair, the only reason Saddam rose to power in the first place was U.S. support. He wasn’t a beneficial change for the locals who were subjected to years of warfare before the foray into Kuwait (and more warfare).
You may have an inflated perception of the percentage of Libyans that celebrated the fall of Gaddafi.
Famous picture of Rummy smiling broadly while shaking hands with Saddam.
Yes, Saddam was supported by the US State Dept/Military.
Until he was not..
But, under his rule, women were allowed an education, to drive and travel w/o a “male family member” and the Christian minority was not persecuted.
Saddam was bad, yes.
But after we deposed him, hell on earth followed for women, children and most everyone else.
No, I do not have an inflated perception about the # of Libyans who were happy with Gaddafi’s ouster;
It was mainly the portion of Libyans that wanted to return to fundamental Islamic rule.
I know this due to a Libyan acquaintance of mine who returned after 40 years of exile immediately after Gaddafi died.
He is a true believer if the radical islamists who took control after Gaddafi.
And now, even that portion of the populace is wondering how in the hell the country might ever be a shadow of what it was before Gaddafi was killed.
“The Libyans” was taken to mean the bulk of the country, so your clarification shows you didn’t mean to paint with such a broad brush.
Most will choose to maintain their current, known situation rather than move to an unknown. Even pre-U.S. colonials were only about 1/3 in favor if revolting.
Exactly. The destruction of Libya, Ukraine and Syria guarantees a hot home in hell for Obama, Hillary and Nuland. Also, Trump and Biden could have made things better for the Syrians and both of these fools will face their maker. I don’t think these psychopaths care about repercussions or afterlife or conscious or simply doing the right thing.
The Evil Empire that Reagan spoke about is America and the Western vassals. We just destroy countries and civilizations. Also, we are subservient to Israel and they control our politicians through the media and AIPAC.
I know one thing. The Founders of our country never wanted us involved with foreign entanglements and I’ll stick with that crowd vs. the monsters that rule over us.
Don’t forget Cheney and George Bush, Jr., William Kristol, Mr Kagan, Candi Rice and more!!!
They have secured reservations in the Hottest Portion of Hell as well.
(RIH-Rest In Hell) Rumsfeld.. (already ensconced in his Hellish afterlife)
Pipeline-a-stan
Less Syrians fleeing to Europe?
Fewer. Syrian Sunnis had gone to Europe. Now they can go back. Riiiight.
The large number Syrians who left after the 2011 festivities began under Pale Face Jesus (Obama)
At some point in the past couple weeks, the Syrian military leadership must have finally decided to no longer support Assad, which then forced him to flee for his life as the opposition army arrived at the gates of Damascus! Appears Putin’s mercenaries will arrive too late to accomplish much, and are better off remaining in the Ukraine.
correct
Not reported here, but the military was very poorly paid, trained and supposedly Assad had replace his wartime generals with others loyal to him. They weren’t fighting for a better future, but again not reported on Mish’s site is the Caeser sanctions that prohibited food, medicine and other goods to Syria. On top of this, America stole their oil (Conoco gas fields) and wheat. The country was impoverished.
Now, you will see a ISIS caliphate under another name formed and they will attack the Americans at the gas fields and Israel. I’m curious if the Americans and Israel will try to use them to attack Iran. In that case, then Iran will have to fight back.
This has just led to more instability in the area not less.
America probably paid them to back Al Qaeda. “Al Qaeda is on our side” as Jake the Snake once said.
Ah, another “dictator” gone.
This will be good for Syria. (/sarcasm)
How about removing a “dictator” from Iraq.
How well did that turn out?
And removing a “dictator” from Libya.
How well has that turned out?
Etc, etc, etc …
Can’t remove un-elected Zelinsky because he’s not a dictator it”s just marshal law.
English speaking rabble rousers don’t seen to do well in the Middle East and Ukraine.
One big difference between Iraq and Syria, is that Iraq was largely under the control of uncle Saddam (although the Kurds had their semi-independent area in the north), when Bush Jr. started his ill conceived invasion. Syria on the other hand was largely chopped up years ago when the civil war kicked off, and therefore the territory Assad controlled, being much smaller by comparison.
I haven’t heard a peep out of Muammar Khadifi nor Saddam Hussein. Putin is next.
Both of those countries are now in a state of devastation.
One million dead in Iraq since we “liberated” the country from Saddam.
Iran-backed Shias in control.
Tens of thousands dead in Libya (officially an unknown number), slave trade is “thriving”, women and girls treated as chattel property, infrastructure in shambles.
Good Job America!
“Regime Change”!
“Democracy” wins again!
When will we stop “helping to free” these countries that will never accept our ideas of “progressive government”, which ALWAYS ends in death and destruction of innocent civilians?
But hey, at least we (NeoCon globalists) now control some or all of their resources..
Saddam tried to assassinate an American president.
Muamar shot down civilian aircraft and tried to replace the oil dollar.
Who else wants to try?
“Wanna try?” Oh yes, I will be happy to educate you:
Saddam may have made a weak attempt at GW Bush.
Boy George squealed “he (Saddam) tried to kill my dad!”
That piss poor excuse was burped up by Lil Boy Bush after it became obvious that there were no WMDs or the dreaded “Yellow Cake” in Iraq.
And finally, none of the 9-11 high jackers were from Iraq or supported by Saddam Hussein.
So, America kills (according to the BBC, UNESCO, etc) at least 500,000 Iraqis.
And 4431 American soldiers died in Iraq.
Tens of thousand have been permanently disabled.
Trillions of US tax dollars were wasted.
U.S. forces destroy the infrastructure, and now controls the resources (funds from Iraqi oil are deposited at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, look it up).
And our supposed mortal enemy Iran controls much of the country.
That’s what I call SUCCESS!
“Wanna Try?”
Are you a child?
“Wanna Try?”
Yes, please:
And so, how many American lives must be paid to avenge an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Mr “New World Order” George HW Bush? (CIA scum & suspected stooge involved in JFK assassination)
Oh yes, he was such a marvelous example of humanity..
Suit up KGB!
There are America hating commies that need killing!
You must be referring to the Pan Am 103 bombing. The airliner that was shot down was Iran Air 655 – shot down unapologetically by the USS Vincennes. This was 6 months before Pan Am 103 which was clearly retribution from Iran. Libyan National Al Megrahi was set up by US intelligence (sic) as accusing Iran would have been a little messy, especially considering that the crew of the Vincennes all received medals for their participation.
In your dreams, Langley.
You forgot Afghanistan . The first time against Russia when we partnered with Osama bin laden. That turned out well except maybe for 911.
What a garbage.
You support dictators?
As you see, there is one little problem for dictators: eventually they piss enough people with their terror. Every dictatorship ends in same way: with their ridiculous statues toppled down by cheering crowds.
Zelensky won his elections in landslide. But more importantly he is more popular since start of the war than ever. Many in Ukraine said they will vote for him on second elections even if they did not vote for him in the past.
Just small factoid to contemplate: no president of USA has ever been as popular as Zelensky is now since invention of polls.
Gee whiz you sock puppet, don’t you think that Putin is more “popular” than Zelensky?
“I would like to see rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani announce elections a year from now or so.” I almost can’t express how gullible this sounds to me – especially coming from someone that I respect. Time will tell, I suppose.
Hell, the U.S. Gov had put a $10 million bounty on his al-Jawlani) head!
And now, he’s “on the team”!
He no doubt turned himself in and collected the 10 million.
It will take some time for the US to get Syria’s political mechanisms organized the way the US wants them.
We know who the losers are, Assad and his Alawite allies, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Shiites of Iraq, but we are not sure who the winners are yet although Israel comes out good and Turkey will be able to repatriate the Syrian refugees as well as having a lot of influence with the new government. The rebels are a hodgepodge of groups that were more used to fighting each other rather than their common enemy but somehow managed to unite and conduct a rather well-thought-out and executed lightning offensive. Obviously they had help from several quarters in this. Too many people in the area were sick of Iran, its proxies and their Russian friends.
Another anarchy brought to us by “friends” on the other side of the world.
When you live in a world village the villagers are always sticking their noses into everybody else’s business. It’s a fact of human existence and wishing it wasn’t so will not make it go away.
And the Christians? And the women? Didn’t see 1 woman in any of the videos.
They are going back to the stone age like Afghanistan
And who was the one protecting the last of the Christians there?
It rhymes with Tootin.
I thought god did that.
He sometimes works through good men – like Putin.
NOW I know why all those putin enemies keep flying out of windows!
People who were inconvenient to the Clintons generally shot themselves in the head.
Once again Larry, Are the women now in hiding? Are they going back to the stone age like Afghanistan?
You can be funny all you want…..But the above is not funny
Putin’s is not well known for protecting Ukrainian women and young girls from Russian soldiers so spare us your fake tears.
2 wrongs make a right…Ok, got it Doug
Well stated.
Europe is an indirect winner too because if all the refugees in Turkey go back home to Syria they won’t be coming to Europe. There has been a large flow of Syrians into Europe in the past 10 years.
And when the Sunni extremists – including Uighurs – start beheading Christians again I’m sure Israel will welcome them as refugees. S/
Do they have money? If they have money it’s ok.
We have made a mess out of the Middle East. The best thing the US could do is pull all our forces out of the ME, come home and pursue a neutralist foreign policy
And how about we take in all the christians from the middle east and let islam kill their own?
I’ll sign up for that.
Well said. Note that NATO (Turkey) participated in conquest of the previously sovereign nation of Syria. Heck, “mission creep” is too benign a term. Why are billions and billions of US taxpayers’ dollars–money taxpayers earn but don’t get to spend–going to these foreign entanglements with countries that are not free–not just Turkey, but Britain, France, and Germany?
Think how much smaller US debt would be if we had exited NATO when its raison d’être ceased to exist.
“nAtO iS a DeFeNsiVe AlLiAnCe”
How naive…
I already can hear loud screams how US have ‘responsibility’ to solve each and every mess on the planet, including the Middle East one.
Assad’s plane shot down. Putin is still in the air. Ukraine received 3,500 km bunker busters from South Korea. Trump tells Putin to settle before 20Jan2025.
Originally the plane looked to be headed toward Iran but mysteriously turned back around. Israeli planes probably headed it off over the eastern desert and gave them a choice of either being shot down or to go back.
Putin tells Trump to pound sand?
More dead Russians are devoutly to be wished.
‘Light-In-The-Loafers’ Lindsey Graham quote.
What a sadist, sodomite ghoul..
Half a million not enough for you? Don’t be greedy… the rest will succumb to cirrhosis soon enough.
He’s Elon’s sock puppet now.
Most likely: Taliban in Syria, more refugees.
It’s even worse, because the Taliban only affects Afghanistan. Al Qaeda now runs Syria. Nice job, Erdogan and Netanyahu and Jake the Snake. I’d say “be careful what you wish for” but it’s too late.
What’s hopeful is that Syria power agrees to allow the Gaza and West bank Palestinians to relocate there.
Trump, are you listening?
Always ready with the ethnic cleansing proposals
You don’t understand the meaning of the words you are spewing.
Why not just let Israel continue what it’s doing until it kills the 9mn Palestinians? It’s what they (and you) want, isn’t it?
With the ancillary (to Israhell) benefit of cleansing the Middle East of its last Christians – who they hate more than Muslims. Meanwhile moronic American fundamentalists (Huckabee) aid in destroying the Christian churches that kept the faith for 1,800 years before the dispensationalist novelty even arose.
I’m trying to be compassionate! Sheese.
There are more than 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey who will be relocating back home first.
I wish Syria peaceful and prosperous. They have been suffering for many years.
But the major problem is foreign powers. They were there. They are there and they will be there. Internal problem can be solved only after they have left. Will they leave Syria after Assad fall? I don’t think so.
Without solving Israel / Palestine problem, I don’t see peaceful Syria / ME.
Ukraine will fall next and Zelenski will flee to London.
Unlikely. This is a huge blow to Putin and will give a morale boost to Ukraine.
No, no, no. What this shows is that Putin was unable to expend the resources necessary to support Assad and defend his dictatorship. This is also why North Koreans are fighting for Russia.
Could Putin be the next dictator to fall?
Biden in 42 days?
North Koreans are not fighting for Russia. Laughable western propaganda.
They’re just parading around in military gear in Kursk. It’s a North Korean fashion show.
Herp
One corner of Putin’s whole strategic framework has just buckled. Will Iran (Putin’s remaining ally in the region) be happy to see a Sunni regime there, which may well align with the Sunni powers? The new regime seems aligned with Turkey, which itself might also distance even more from Russia, and Turkey sits at a bottleneck for Russian ships’ passage.
Well, Pres. Erdogan is no fool: He knows that the West will abandon a leader once the leader outlasts the West’s usefulness. Turkey will do what’s best for Turkey.
That bottleneck is subject to international treaties so it can’t be blocked to Russian commercial shipping.
Now what is going to happen to the Russian warm water navel base in Syria? Will it remain under Russian control or will the islamists try to force them out?
More like Turkey proxies.
Nah…he’s going to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and already has a multi-million dollar house there; close to the mansion built by corrupt Nancy Pelosi.
please – stop the silliness
“Well I know it’s not satire. It’s zany madcap humor.”