Post-Assad Syria is on the brink of all-out collapse that could turn it into the world’s largest hotbed of terrorism if this process isn’t soon averted.
Christians aren't concentrated in a large enough area to realistically have any chance of forming a broad Bosnian-like federalized autonomy that could have their own security services and other forms of support for their community.
If anything of the sort transpires, I'd expect that they'd move to the Alawite and/or Kurdish polities if they didn't feel safe remaining in their hometowns.
Christians are a minority presence, but do not amount to a faction, as do the Alawites and Kurds. Since those are plainly western fingers wiggling the hand puppet, the Christians will be given good treatment and soothing promises, for now.
Like in Iraq, Lol? The Christians survived and at times thrived almost two thousand years in Iraq. They survived Tamerlane, the Mongols, the Ottomans, Murad, the Abbasids, Saddam Hussein and many others.
I have absolutely zero respect for a leader who didn't even address his nation once during its worst-ever crisis. That's the definition of cowardly according to my standards, but I accept that you and others might have different ones.
Address it how? When everyone arround him was selling the country. Remember that scene in Game of Thrones when Theon Greyjoy is trying to raise his men to fight against Ramsey Bolton and his men sell him out? Cannot fight against a whole culture. Have you seen this clip with everyone leaving? https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1866008719361786040
Saddam's generals were bought and didn't fight. Same in Syria. Why be stupid and die and have your family killed for a really, really stupid gesture? To give a message that in his hart knew it was not true and nobody believed in?
Valiant?! Not at all. The guy was a figurehead over an increasingly disfunctional system, he wore a mantle that he obviously didn't want. What was there to defend? Syria lacks completely any abassyia. But one cannot semd such a message to a fallen people. Wait for the next generation.
Then what are you arguing with me about? I made a valid point that most people would agree with: it was cowardly for Assad to flee and not even address his own people.
But you can think whatever you want. I'm not trying to argue with you. I mistakenly thought that you wanted to learn more about how I viewed everything, not debate with me.
Oh I am interested in your views, very much so, and you are very informative. However, your asertment that Assad is a cowerd is just an opinion, it is not analysis.
He didn't address his nation once and then left the capital without even telling his own fellow officials according to reports. The very least that he could have done was put out a video on social media if he was physically unable to film anything higher quality. That's very cowardly by my standards.
Many people fought, sacrificed, and even died for him, just to be left in the lurch, disappointed, and abandoned. It's still shocking that he'd do such a thing. My impressions of him were false, I know this now in hindsight, and the result of intense propaganda from the pro-Resistance faction of the Alt-Media Community.
What could he have said? And when could he have set it up, with events cascading as they did? Given the dissolution of the SAA, I doubt many "officials" didn't know which way the wind was blowing. And what "reports" are we talking about? That's as likely to be propaganda as not--just like the Trump posts you are complaining about in your most recent post. In any case, there are other, and probably better, ways of informing people than publicly released videos.
Assad was, in some sense, always a figure-head leader. He intended to be an ophthalmologist and was forced into the regime-leader job when he elder brother died unexpectedly. He was by no means cut out for the post temperamentally. And like Yanukovich, he has fled to Russia.
Petty moralizing over the manner of Assad's flight seems so beside the point now.
And frankly, so does enumerating the things that "must happen" to stabilize Syria. M.K. Bhadrakumar's piece looking ahead to the likely, unpleasant realities of the country and the region seems much more apropos.
There is more to the collapse of the erstwhile government in Syria than meets the eye.
Russia in its wisdom has made an excellent decision in granting asylum to the former leader of the Syrian government, Mr Bashar Al Assad.
Russia maintains cordial relations with Mr Assad as well as with the Syrian people, and is no way involved in any blame game or mud-slinging against any Syrian including Mr Assad or his family members. Speculations to the contrary are the handiwork of vested western interests.
Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of either Syria, or Turkey, or Israel or Saudi Arabia for that matter.
Russia has inviolable rights to its air and naval bases in Syria which accrue from its agreements with the Syrian people through the agency of their legitimate elected government which held office at the time of signing of those agreements.
None of the external players in the Syrian imbroglio, and none of the power brokers such as the USA, or EU or their regional cohorts in the middle east, whether they be part of NATO or CENTCOM or any other power-pact amongst themselves, HAS ANY LOCUS STANDI TO OUST RUSSIA FROM ITS SOVEREIGN MILITARY BASES IN RUSSIA.
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Interesting assessment. I'm not sure anything is "inviolable" in the last analysis. And to be honest, I don't t think the US or anyone else is going to worry much about "locus standi."
Now if Putin has cut a deal with Erdogan, and possibly Bibi too, then maybe all that will work out for Russia. It depends on the extent of Turkey's ambitions, I suppose. But I wonder how viable Tartus is without control of the hinterland even if the Russians do have some sort of deal provisionally worked out.
It seems to me wrong to consider that the puppet and motley regime that will succeed that of Bashar Al Assad, will allow Russia to keep its bases in Syria. The US/Israel couple will force, in one way or another, its "foals" to get rid of this unfortunate thorn... The big losers will be, Russia on the one hand, Iran of course, and, above all, the dream of a peaceful, just and prosperous Middle East...
I don't believe that any retention of Russia's bases would be due to the post-Assad authorities allowing it, but would happen (if it doesn't withdraw like some reports claim that it's already in the process of doing or is preparing to do) against their will.
Reminds me of the collapse of the Iraqi Army in 2014. It was the same kind of rapid implosion that totally surprised most observers.
SAA is exhausted, and Assad would have fallen in 2015-16 if the Russians hadn't intervened.
Now Russia, Iran and Hezbollah all have their own problems and are simply incapable at this juncture of saving Assad. And the relentless US sanctions after Assad "won" the last round have simply left Syria tired and demoralized.
Israel has always been the main instigator behind the US campaign to oust Assad from the beginning of his rule. Now, they have what they want. The Hamas operation a year ago has certainly had knock-on effects. Israeli tanks are in southern Syria now. Maybe Eretz Israel will get even bigger.
I don't see anything that stops the collapse of Syria. The question is what comes next. How much sway does Erdogan have over the jihadists he has been supporting? To the extent that Syria is now a Turkish proxy, Turkey becomes a front-line state with Israel. And what about the US occupation forces in the east of Syria. Somehow, despite Trump saying the US should stay out of the Syrian conflict, I doubt US forces will be going anywhere. They certainly didn't during Trump's first term.
Repulsive to see Israel and Turkey, like hyenas, tearing the flesh off Syria's carcass while Uncle Shmuel smirks in the background.
Assad’s cowardly flight? Seems like everyone wanted him out so he did what he had to do. What was he going to do, grab a machine gun and go down fighting?
He didn't even address his nation once, how is that anything but cowardly? His supporters fought for 13 years in his name to preserve what he represented and he couldn't even be bothered with putting out a low-quality video on social media? Come on, that's the definition of a coward. I have no respect for him at all.
By replicating the Syria model of "sanctions" as embodied in Trump's notorious Caesar Act, the Western strategy is to impoverish and emaciate Russia in the same way by seizing its asetts, imposing blockade in the fashion of highway brigands on international commercial traffic to and from that country, and terrorising countries of the global south into ostracising both Russia as well as their own compatriots who continue to do business with Russia. At the same time, the CIA led Western cabal will relentlessly try to buy out moles from amongst personnel strategically perched in governance hierarchy in Russia, facilitated by unbridled printing of the US dollar. These acts are part of a concerted civilisational war of decimation waged by the entire collective west on Russia, and as yet it is too early for any Russophile to poke fun at Mr Assad. And as far as my memory serves me right, such is not the official policy of the Russian Federation either. The hard lesson for Russia immanent in the Syrian fiasco might be that Russia needs to act decisively by military means (whilst also of necessity substantially decoupling itself from western economies and breaking free of western colonial instruments of leverage such as pan-European conventions on IPR's and patents) in some or the other theatre before it is too late and the fate of Iraq befalls it as planned by its implacable western foes who harbour irreconciliable animosity towards it.
It should be abundantly obvious by now that the Russian leadership is only playing at being a superpower, but they are nowhere near decisive or ruthless enough to be one.
It does appear so. Russia has the means to completely neutralize NATO by forcing Ukraine's surrender instead of settling for a whole lot less and getting fooled again in the future. Putin is over-diplomatic against a ruthless opposition.
It looks very much like the SAA had already made arrangements with the "rebels", because they effectively escorted the enemy into the capital. The whole thing looks more like a transition of power to Turkish/US/Israeli proxies instead of Russian/Iranian ones. This suggests the army will, indeed, be kept in being - a small positive.
"12/7/24 No matter how trusted was father, do not backing chinless Dictator Jr."
- diary of a Russian president
Most all of the analysis I have read on the situation has been at least partially correct. The overthrow was meticulously planned and exquisitely timed. The fake IDF/Hezbollah ceasefire was just the setup for the spike. Would HTS have succeeded so well if Hezbollah had not been wounded first? The sensible points the author outlines would likely save the country, and possibly the region, from general conflagration, ergo, not happening.
This is the slickest operation I have seen the west pull since the Maidan in 2014: they will use the opportunity to twist and pull the barbed knife through every tissue of the resistance they can reach, consequences on the ground be damned.
As long as Syria is in chaos, USSA and Israel have already won.
Historically, the Western colonialists won in the ME because people in the desert had too much hatred for one another and very difficult to unite. Lawrence of Arabia is a vivid characterization. Even if Syria maintains a weak government but remains in practical fragmentation, Russia's relationships with all ME countries are discounted. In retrospect, Russia's long-term planners had over-estimated their achievement in the ME, because poor people can be easily bribed by infinite print of US Dollars. I am sure I myself has overlooked the potential impact of the Syria stability issue. Russians are a people traditionally with very strong nationalism and have had a unified government for several hundred years. It is probably not easy to comprehend the minds of the people living in poor and fragmented countries.
However, I don't see Russians giving only limited support to Assad's government as a betrayal. When NAZI forces broke the French forces at Lille and moved toward Dunkirk, the UK withdrew all its tactical airforce back to England. British planes still came over the Strait to fight in the sky of France, but they were launched from the UK and they flew back to the UK. I don't see Russia should withdraw from its naval base, as that Russian force may be the only dependable anchor for peace in Syria. I don't know whether Russia should continue to support Assad or not. If not, should Russia organize a provisional government from the Syria land around the Russian naval base?
The USSA doesn't even like the ME either. You can't buy the loyalty of these people but you can only rent them. You can't just print money forever to bribe these desert people, while commodities and resources in ME are already at their limit.
The USSA has massive economic problems that demand our intentions elsewhere, as Trump said. The USSA will likely allow Israel to do whatever it wants as Americans will limit their direct presence in ME. The USSA will outsource the dirty works to Israel from now on, as I see it.
The US military has consistently refused to withdraw from Syria, despite its presence there being entirely illegal. The Pentagon had occupied huge swathes of Syria, the most productive ones at that, oil and wheat, by exploiting Syria's helplessness during the peak of ISIS insurgency when the Syrian Army had got too bogged down on multiple fronts and become too weak to protect Syria from invasion and dismemberment. The Pentagon and Mossad have effectively vivisected Syria politically and such had been the status quo for years on end. Says Uncle Sam, "In view of the strategic importance of the Levant to us and our allies, we do not forsee our forces ever leaving that region".
From the aforegoing precedent, it seems plain obvious that it would be unwise and possibly unethical of Russia to agree to any withdrawl from its military bases in Syria which it had built in the first place solely upon the invitation of the legitimate government of Syria under the doctrine of collective defense. If the White House dismisses the Assad government as a dictatorial regime despite the fact that elections had regularly been held in Syria, then all pf American-friendly regimes in the Arabian peninsula from Jordan and Saudia to Qatar, Kuwait and UAE are even more despotic Bedouin monarchies. The tender mercies of Islamism are legendary, but this will time around it is the Mossad and the Ziofascist quasi Phoenician Phareesical empire acting via intermediary vassals which holds the reins of this fiendish monster, and that cabal is strongly opposed in practice to the continuation of Russian presence on Syrian soil. For the sake of protection of Syrian civilians from the Islamist scourge as well as prempting the latter's wholesale splatter onto Russian mainland, it would only be prudent of Russia to obstinately resist all pressure from all quarters to vacate its bases in Syria, especially given that all of such quarters are foreign vested interests alien to Syria which possess no legal mandate or locus standi to be ordering Russians around !
Zio-oligarchic corpimperialist cabal, ensconced in citadels masquerading as bourses. Aliens who stole much of Amica from cowboys, after covertly disenfranchising the latter economically, socially and politically ; and infiltrating, subverting all democratic institutions and gritesquely transmogrifying them beyond repair. This cabal has expropriated the entire edifice of western imperialism which had been assiduously built over the centuries by cowboys, and with itself at the helm, is now poised to fling its sheeple hosts wholesale as expendable cannon fodder in the line of nuclear fire in its zero sum gambles of vanquishing Russia for the sake of global economic dominance.
Another interesting feature of this, as one steps back to take in the panoramic view, is just how strange it is that the Palestinians have been defended only by the Shia--at great cost to the latter--while the Sunni Arab world sinks further into fecklessness and lethargy.
Good analytical piece from former Indian diplomat, M.K. Bhadrakumar--"Winners and Losers in Syria."
He says, in part:
"Suffice to say, Turkish occupation of Syrian territory may assume a permanent character and even a quasi-annexation of the regions is within the realms of possibility. Make no mistake, the Treaty Lausanne (1923), which Turkey regards as a national humiliation, has just expired and the hour of reckoning has come for reclaiming the Ottoman glory. The present Turkish leadership is committed to the geo-strategy of Neo-Ottomanism.
"In all probability, therefore, what is at stake is the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and the disintegration of the country as a state. It has been reported that Israeli tanks have crossed the border into southern Syria. No doubt, Israel aims at grabbing much more than Syrian territory beyond Golan Heights. The dream of Greater Israel has taken a giant step toward realisation. Next follows Lebanon which Israel cannot but aspire to control if it is to be the dominant regional power in the Levant and an influencer in the politics of Eastern Mediterranean. According to Israeli media, Tel Aviv has direct contacts with the Islamist groups operating in southern Syria. It is no secret that these groups were being mentored by the Israeli army for over a decade.
"The heart of the matter is that Iran’s regional influence significantly diminishes as the resistance groups (which are largely Shi’ite) become rudderless and disillusioned. This not only works to the advantage of Israel but also triggers a profound shift in the balance of forces regionally, which will have resonance for the current conflicts in the Greater Middle East as a whole in a long term perspective — Gaza, Lebanon and even as far away as Central Asia and South Asia. The bottom line is that the genie of al-Qaeda is out of the bottle, finally, and there is no stopping its pan-Islamic agenda. "
Actually, that treaty had awarded a much much larger piece of territory to the newly independent state of Syria as part of the Aleppo province. However, Kemal Ataturk of Turkey scoffed at that treaty, and annexed the greater part of projected Aleppo province on force of a military campaign, much like Turkey annexed and completely subsumed the ethnic-Armenian province of Qilicia. The world is now accusing the Syrian Arab Army of cowardice. But then, the Arab soldiers serving in the armies of Jordan, Saudia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are even more timid. If Indian world war 2 veterans who fought against Turkey at Gallipoli and elsewhere are to be believed, so are the Turks one of the least intrepid people on earth. It is only so long as they are faced with a far weaker or disadvantaged adversary that the people mentioned hereafore flex their muscles, because bullying, humilitating, exploiting and otherwise victimising those weaker than themselves is second nature to them. It is under such illusions of perceiving Russia as a paper tiger that Erdogan has joined the NATO schemers in a grand plan for reigniting the Basmachi fires all across the Turkic former Soviet republics as well as resurrecting the medieval Turko-imperialist Khanate of Sibir in a huge stretch of Russia amounting to one third of its total landmass, under the conviction that Russia is too shy or hesitant to be able to muster the courage to answer Turkey, let alone the latter's NATO master in its own language. All of Turkey's projected transgressions against Russia which are in the offing proceed from this fundamental premise. The day such mischief is matched with force as befits it, all of Turkish bravado will evaporate in thin air, because deep down in their hearts, the Janissaries are among the most cowardly beings on earth ! But until then, no amount of appeasement of Erdogan by Russia in form of knowtoying before his illicit neo-Ottomanist ambitions is going to stop him in his tracks, but will only embolden Turkey to undertake evermore dastardly adventures, because it is not in the nature of the Turkish soul to take kindly to those who meekly submit before Turks in any measure no matter whether out of compulsion or misplaced courtesy.
Seriously. Damascus is across the mountains from Beirut. Both cities are beautiful before Western Politics entered. Families left in the 70’s . Damascus was donkeys and sand. Our Bierut contact is barely surviving as a long time resident. This “Paris of the Mediterranean “ has US MIL-Pentagon-DC-EU-UN-Congress written all over it. Residents walk through rubble for limited daily shopping. Banking services are weak. WTF. Just leave cuz you can’t fix what has been made.
Damascus was a historical city for centuries. Syria was a Christian area centuries ago.
I see no way the US and its NATO quislings are going to allow Russia to maintain its military presence in Syria hereafter, DEAL or NO DEAL notwithstanding. The Pentagon simply is unable to reconcile itself to the idea. Except if Russia demonstrates the will power to match bullying tactics by the Pentagon and its proxies with an eye for an eye and a fist for a fist. Otherwise, I can envisage a vista of drone swarm attacks on both Hmeim airbase and Tartus naval base, originating from all sides including American frigates, American Army bases, Israel and of course the HTS. Needless to say, the HTS will claim dubious responsibility by owning up all of those attacks to cover for NATO and Israel, much like both Israel and US had been launching unclaimed attacks from their respective UAV's on those Russian bases during the heydays of ISIS insurgency. It is doubtful whether Russia will be able to spare enough defensive firepower in the form of anti-drone ammunition or the S 400's from its Ukrainian theatre to match the impending drone swarms threatening its bases in Syria. The only viable option, short of a complete retreat or withdrawl, seems to lie in going on the offensive in some measure, but that would depend on the political will and weighing of all pros and cons. Until then, I am not very optimistic about the future of Russian bases in Syria, eventhough I certainly am not hoping for anything ominous to befall them even for the sake of proving my surmises right, nor would I bet my money on such a prediction. However, the Russian leadership perhaps really will need to do a rethink of the conservative approach to policy after taking fresh stock of the entire situation (anew).
A very large number of sex therapy clinics have sprung up across Israel in recent years. In most of those clinics, the government of Israel pays the clinic owners or so called sex-therapists, for "sexual rehabilitation" of such Israeli military personnel who have lately been suffering loss of libido in the aftermath of combat injuries, or from depression consequent upon remorse for excesses committed upon adversaries in the line of military duty. Israeli soldiers are by convention bereft of the liberty to voice their personal remorse or feelings of guilt in public, or even to friends in the military or amongst civilian populace. The pent up feelings of guilt as pitted against a lifetime of self superior and self rectitudinal indoctrination, result in a conflict of psychology which has been wreaking havoc with the mental health of Israeli soldiers. And the government of Israel in its enlightened wisdom has decided that pampering such "traumatized" soldiers with bounties of lascivious extramarital carnal indulgence, is the best remedy for all of those mental and psychological ailments engendered by circumstances of their military assignments. In those sex therapy clinics, male Israeli soldiers are retaught the ABC of love making from scratch, by female psychologists in a very seductive and lewd environment, laden with sexually explicit scenes painted all over the walls and outright vulgar language and tone used by those psychologists. But the icing on the cake is the mandatory practical sessions, which invariably follow those didactic lectures and interactive one to one dialogues between male Israeli soldier and his female sex therapist. At the end of those sessions, the soldier is retired to a Cosy room sporting all the features of a luxury brothel, and provided a real female sexual partner who is little more than a sexual serf, for enacting all of his latent and dirty sexual fantasies on that unfortunate women. In fact, just prior to commencement of those "practical" sessions which are nothing short of legalised prostitution subsidized by the government, the real life spouses of those Israeli soldiers are summoned to the clinic, and cajoled to encourage their husbands to shed off all inhibitions before undertaking their libidinous feat of impressive performance in that brothel, and to assure those husbands that they should not worry in the least about embarrassment from their wives. The wives are told that those carnal liaisons in the brothel are simply part of the state's endeavour to keep Israeli Army in fit shape, and are something the whole nation must unquestioningly feel proud about. The male soldiers are also especially warned by their therapist or instructor, not to get carried away by allowing soft feelings to develop in their hearts for their one night stand female partners, who are to be treated as beings with no greater status than temporary sex mannequins. The million dollar question is, who are the women who are being trafficked by the Israeli sex therapy public- private partnership syndicate into those brothels for satiating the carnal appetite of Israeli soldiers and wayward Israeli male civilians? The Torah proscribed adultery and prescribes death by stoning for the act. As such, it is most unlikely that the Israeli state will incentivate female Israeli Jewish nationals to prostitute themselves in those state-patronized brothels. It is highly suspected that unsuspecting Palestinian Muslim women, picked up under pretext of routine questioning by the IDF, are being thrown for sexual exploitation amounting to rape in those brothels, and are then being forced to keep silent about those monstrosities for the rest of their lives out of fear of social stigmatization if the Mossad goes overboard with defaming them by revealing spicy details of their coerced sexual encounters with Israeli soldiers.
There is reason to believe that the Hamas, originally goaded into emergence by the Mossad itself as a countervail to influence of Palestinian faction Fatah, is not quite the "proxy" of Iran it has been made out to be in recent years. In fact, some of the mouthpieces of covert Mossad propaganda who feign Islamist leanings such as CJ Weleman, have gone so far to say in exonerating Iran in this respect that Iran has not killed a single Isreali soldier in the entire duration of its existence on earth. (CJ Werleman in fact taunts Iran for not killing Israeli nationals who are all Jews by default, yet no one accuses this man of antisemetism because he is peddling propaganda for the Israeli side. CJ Weleman moreover lays the blame on Iran's proxies for alleged "massacre of thousands of Palestinians in Syria" perhaps in tacit reference to some of the 150000 strong Uieghur terrorist desperadoes in the ISIS who had made fatuous claims of being Palestinian by ethnicity, some of whom had perished in skirmishes with heroic Syrian defenders ). Iran's association with the Hamas seems limited to congenial talking terms with that outfit; and anyways now with Syria and Iran effectively out of the picture, it would be interesting to see if the Palestinian Queen of Jordan, nicknamed "Mother of Israel and Palestine" because of her exceptional soft corner for Israel in addition to her ubiquitous reverence by Palestinian diaspora in Jordan, can manage to bring lasting peace to Israel by pacifying the restive Hamas with the soothing ambience of her red lipstick and a bewitching wink of her eye.
One of the BEST ever Benz tutorial -- on Trump 2nd assassin, Rumania, crime in Pakistan, Greater Israel:
- Why trial of 2nd Trump assassin has been postponed – because of (CIA) “complications”
- Why CIA removed and torture destroyed Pakistan’s most popular president ever, Imran Khan – because of his “aggressive neutrality” against “unprovoked” war against Russia
- The role of Afghanistan’s heroin and arms smuggling to finance “unprovoked” war in Ukraine primarily through Romania – Taliban’s second heroin prohibition is, according to CIA, a “tragedy for world”
- Same judge that for years prosecuted Andrew Tate per US request, has disqualified seasoned diplomat Calin Georgescu, who had 63+ % advantage over NATO candidate -- two days before elections -- same pattern as in Syria (most brutal economic sanctions recorded), Georgia, Libya,
- The critical role of Romania-Pakistan in State Dept’s war against Russia
Note: ALL these and other horrible crimes were during Pompeo/Trump administration
Thanks. I don’t have the Twatter but I’ve subscribed to his YouTube clips channel, and want to listen to his recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Good tip.
The idea that the present catastrophic outcome in Syria could have been averted had Mr Assad ceded substantial concessions to Turkey's proxies is an untested one. No one can say for sure whether it would have worked, unless of course it had actually been implemented and then the world had subsequently gotten to witness the consequences. However, one can hazard reasonable guesses from the examples of Libya and Iraq which came before Syria. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had made a 180 degree about turn in the 2000's, burying all differences with the west and opening all sectors of the economy in his country for exploitation by western MNC's in an all out effort to appease the USA and forge strong friendship. However, the west did not stop at that, and ransacked Libya via an outright invasion by NATO aided by its Al Qaeda affiliates, and also made a horrible example of Gaddaffi himself. For, the Zio-oligarchic MNC's whom Gaddaffi had so generously allowed into his country, were not contented with swallowing simply the chunks legally surrendered to them by Gaddaffi on a platter, but instead they wanted total colonial ownership over all of Libyan land. Likewise, Israel has unleashed hell and mayhem on Syria in pursuit of its ambition to annex the Levant to Greater Israel via the agency of Erdogan's hounds reeked in paleolithic savagery. But what does this portend for the Arab lackeys of Anerica in the broader Saracenic peninsula. Less than half a decade down the line, I can imagine the entire region from Jordan through Saudi Arabia to Oman becoming an anarchic synctitium of brute jihadists devoid of national affiliation, as a spillover from the HTS and its ISIL affiliates whose members include hundreds of Jordanians and Saudis besides thousands of Central Asians and Turkic Uieghurs; in turn evoking very stern response from the rulers of those Sheikhdoms in terms of curtailing of civil liberties and repressive measures on the populace, transforming the region into 20th century embodiments of the rampant social injustice and exploitation of masses typified by biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. To forestall such a state of affairs from having ramifications inside Israel, I can well nigh imagine the IDF and NATO warplanes operating out of Nevatim in Israel and Incirlik in Turkey, embarking on intermittent carpet bombing sprees including likely use of nuclear bombs over the entire Arabian peninsula, killing all or any Arabs without discrimination, butchering the rich and poor alike, in the belief that such tactics will prove effective deterrents for scaring the jihadis from looking in the direction of Israel. Welcome to Riyadh, It's 9 0' clock Arabian time, 2030 under shadow of the bombs and guns, Reality Museum of 8th century AD the era of the Assassins. Waking up to Mass rape, torture by the fire and hacksaw on the ground, and raining brimstone from the skies above. Folks asked for it ! Theoretically, the recursive cycle of bombings from the sky alternating with jihad on the ground could iterate ad infinitum, until one grand moment when Islam and Arabs would have become history in the Saracenic Peninsula for good, with far-reaching ramifications globally.
Dont forget the re-building of the temple. A "defensive" border has to be put into place to prevent any uppity Muslims from marching on Israhell once that occurs.
Why do you mention Alawites and Kurds but say nothing of the fate of Christians?
Christians aren't concentrated in a large enough area to realistically have any chance of forming a broad Bosnian-like federalized autonomy that could have their own security services and other forms of support for their community.
If anything of the sort transpires, I'd expect that they'd move to the Alawite and/or Kurdish polities if they didn't feel safe remaining in their hometowns.
Christians are a minority presence, but do not amount to a faction, as do the Alawites and Kurds. Since those are plainly western fingers wiggling the hand puppet, the Christians will be given good treatment and soothing promises, for now.
Like in Iraq, Lol? The Christians survived and at times thrived almost two thousand years in Iraq. They survived Tamerlane, the Mongols, the Ottomans, Murad, the Abbasids, Saddam Hussein and many others.
They did not survive the Americans.
True. I may be indulging some wishful thinking, there.
No worries.
"Assad’s cowardly flight". When nobody is fighting and running, why is Assad particularly "coward"? What would he prove by staying and dying?
Also, #1, what army? I am not sure though about Mukhabarat, if they will not be linched by HST...
I have absolutely zero respect for a leader who didn't even address his nation once during its worst-ever crisis. That's the definition of cowardly according to my standards, but I accept that you and others might have different ones.
Address it how? When everyone arround him was selling the country. Remember that scene in Game of Thrones when Theon Greyjoy is trying to raise his men to fight against Ramsey Bolton and his men sell him out? Cannot fight against a whole culture. Have you seen this clip with everyone leaving? https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1866008719361786040
Saddam's generals were bought and didn't fight. Same in Syria. Why be stupid and die and have your family killed for a really, really stupid gesture? To give a message that in his hart knew it was not true and nobody believed in?
Release a low-quality video on social media, pass it along to his Russian contacts to release via RT if he couldn't do it on his own somehow, etc.?
I'm not going to defend this cowardice, but I accept that you and others see it as something otherwise, perhaps valiant, I don't know.
Valiant?! Not at all. The guy was a figurehead over an increasingly disfunctional system, he wore a mantle that he obviously didn't want. What was there to defend? Syria lacks completely any abassyia. But one cannot semd such a message to a fallen people. Wait for the next generation.
Then what are you arguing with me about? I made a valid point that most people would agree with: it was cowardly for Assad to flee and not even address his own people.
But you can think whatever you want. I'm not trying to argue with you. I mistakenly thought that you wanted to learn more about how I viewed everything, not debate with me.
Oh I am interested in your views, very much so, and you are very informative. However, your asertment that Assad is a cowerd is just an opinion, it is not analysis.
Yeah, I think it's best for those of us on the sidelines to be rather careful in throwing around the charge of cowardice.
He didn't address his nation once and then left the capital without even telling his own fellow officials according to reports. The very least that he could have done was put out a video on social media if he was physically unable to film anything higher quality. That's very cowardly by my standards.
Many people fought, sacrificed, and even died for him, just to be left in the lurch, disappointed, and abandoned. It's still shocking that he'd do such a thing. My impressions of him were false, I know this now in hindsight, and the result of intense propaganda from the pro-Resistance faction of the Alt-Media Community.
What could he have said? And when could he have set it up, with events cascading as they did? Given the dissolution of the SAA, I doubt many "officials" didn't know which way the wind was blowing. And what "reports" are we talking about? That's as likely to be propaganda as not--just like the Trump posts you are complaining about in your most recent post. In any case, there are other, and probably better, ways of informing people than publicly released videos.
Assad was, in some sense, always a figure-head leader. He intended to be an ophthalmologist and was forced into the regime-leader job when he elder brother died unexpectedly. He was by no means cut out for the post temperamentally. And like Yanukovich, he has fled to Russia.
Petty moralizing over the manner of Assad's flight seems so beside the point now.
And frankly, so does enumerating the things that "must happen" to stabilize Syria. M.K. Bhadrakumar's piece looking ahead to the likely, unpleasant realities of the country and the region seems much more apropos.
There is more to the collapse of the erstwhile government in Syria than meets the eye.
Russia in its wisdom has made an excellent decision in granting asylum to the former leader of the Syrian government, Mr Bashar Al Assad.
Russia maintains cordial relations with Mr Assad as well as with the Syrian people, and is no way involved in any blame game or mud-slinging against any Syrian including Mr Assad or his family members. Speculations to the contrary are the handiwork of vested western interests.
Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of either Syria, or Turkey, or Israel or Saudi Arabia for that matter.
Russia has inviolable rights to its air and naval bases in Syria which accrue from its agreements with the Syrian people through the agency of their legitimate elected government which held office at the time of signing of those agreements.
None of the external players in the Syrian imbroglio, and none of the power brokers such as the USA, or EU or their regional cohorts in the middle east, whether they be part of NATO or CENTCOM or any other power-pact amongst themselves, HAS ANY LOCUS STANDI TO OUST RUSSIA FROM ITS SOVEREIGN MILITARY BASES IN RUSSIA.
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Interesting assessment. I'm not sure anything is "inviolable" in the last analysis. And to be honest, I don't t think the US or anyone else is going to worry much about "locus standi."
Now if Putin has cut a deal with Erdogan, and possibly Bibi too, then maybe all that will work out for Russia. It depends on the extent of Turkey's ambitions, I suppose. But I wonder how viable Tartus is without control of the hinterland even if the Russians do have some sort of deal provisionally worked out.
It seems to me wrong to consider that the puppet and motley regime that will succeed that of Bashar Al Assad, will allow Russia to keep its bases in Syria. The US/Israel couple will force, in one way or another, its "foals" to get rid of this unfortunate thorn... The big losers will be, Russia on the one hand, Iran of course, and, above all, the dream of a peaceful, just and prosperous Middle East...
I don't believe that any retention of Russia's bases would be due to the post-Assad authorities allowing it, but would happen (if it doesn't withdraw like some reports claim that it's already in the process of doing or is preparing to do) against their will.
It will be up to Turkey to decide if Russia keeps its 'summer' base, so what will Turkey want in return. Either way, Russia is not happy with Erdogan.
Reminds me of the collapse of the Iraqi Army in 2014. It was the same kind of rapid implosion that totally surprised most observers.
SAA is exhausted, and Assad would have fallen in 2015-16 if the Russians hadn't intervened.
Now Russia, Iran and Hezbollah all have their own problems and are simply incapable at this juncture of saving Assad. And the relentless US sanctions after Assad "won" the last round have simply left Syria tired and demoralized.
Israel has always been the main instigator behind the US campaign to oust Assad from the beginning of his rule. Now, they have what they want. The Hamas operation a year ago has certainly had knock-on effects. Israeli tanks are in southern Syria now. Maybe Eretz Israel will get even bigger.
I don't see anything that stops the collapse of Syria. The question is what comes next. How much sway does Erdogan have over the jihadists he has been supporting? To the extent that Syria is now a Turkish proxy, Turkey becomes a front-line state with Israel. And what about the US occupation forces in the east of Syria. Somehow, despite Trump saying the US should stay out of the Syrian conflict, I doubt US forces will be going anywhere. They certainly didn't during Trump's first term.
Repulsive to see Israel and Turkey, like hyenas, tearing the flesh off Syria's carcass while Uncle Shmuel smirks in the background.
Assad’s cowardly flight? Seems like everyone wanted him out so he did what he had to do. What was he going to do, grab a machine gun and go down fighting?
He didn't even address his nation once, how is that anything but cowardly? His supporters fought for 13 years in his name to preserve what he represented and he couldn't even be bothered with putting out a low-quality video on social media? Come on, that's the definition of a coward. I have no respect for him at all.
By replicating the Syria model of "sanctions" as embodied in Trump's notorious Caesar Act, the Western strategy is to impoverish and emaciate Russia in the same way by seizing its asetts, imposing blockade in the fashion of highway brigands on international commercial traffic to and from that country, and terrorising countries of the global south into ostracising both Russia as well as their own compatriots who continue to do business with Russia. At the same time, the CIA led Western cabal will relentlessly try to buy out moles from amongst personnel strategically perched in governance hierarchy in Russia, facilitated by unbridled printing of the US dollar. These acts are part of a concerted civilisational war of decimation waged by the entire collective west on Russia, and as yet it is too early for any Russophile to poke fun at Mr Assad. And as far as my memory serves me right, such is not the official policy of the Russian Federation either. The hard lesson for Russia immanent in the Syrian fiasco might be that Russia needs to act decisively by military means (whilst also of necessity substantially decoupling itself from western economies and breaking free of western colonial instruments of leverage such as pan-European conventions on IPR's and patents) in some or the other theatre before it is too late and the fate of Iraq befalls it as planned by its implacable western foes who harbour irreconciliable animosity towards it.
It should be abundantly obvious by now that the Russian leadership is only playing at being a superpower, but they are nowhere near decisive or ruthless enough to be one.
It does appear so. Russia has the means to completely neutralize NATO by forcing Ukraine's surrender instead of settling for a whole lot less and getting fooled again in the future. Putin is over-diplomatic against a ruthless opposition.
Russia certainly *had* the means to do so.
It looks very much like the SAA had already made arrangements with the "rebels", because they effectively escorted the enemy into the capital. The whole thing looks more like a transition of power to Turkish/US/Israeli proxies instead of Russian/Iranian ones. This suggests the army will, indeed, be kept in being - a small positive.
Let's not forget those that defected to Iran.
"12/7/24 No matter how trusted was father, do not backing chinless Dictator Jr."
- diary of a Russian president
Most all of the analysis I have read on the situation has been at least partially correct. The overthrow was meticulously planned and exquisitely timed. The fake IDF/Hezbollah ceasefire was just the setup for the spike. Would HTS have succeeded so well if Hezbollah had not been wounded first? The sensible points the author outlines would likely save the country, and possibly the region, from general conflagration, ergo, not happening.
This is the slickest operation I have seen the west pull since the Maidan in 2014: they will use the opportunity to twist and pull the barbed knife through every tissue of the resistance they can reach, consequences on the ground be damned.
As long as Syria is in chaos, USSA and Israel have already won.
Historically, the Western colonialists won in the ME because people in the desert had too much hatred for one another and very difficult to unite. Lawrence of Arabia is a vivid characterization. Even if Syria maintains a weak government but remains in practical fragmentation, Russia's relationships with all ME countries are discounted. In retrospect, Russia's long-term planners had over-estimated their achievement in the ME, because poor people can be easily bribed by infinite print of US Dollars. I am sure I myself has overlooked the potential impact of the Syria stability issue. Russians are a people traditionally with very strong nationalism and have had a unified government for several hundred years. It is probably not easy to comprehend the minds of the people living in poor and fragmented countries.
However, I don't see Russians giving only limited support to Assad's government as a betrayal. When NAZI forces broke the French forces at Lille and moved toward Dunkirk, the UK withdrew all its tactical airforce back to England. British planes still came over the Strait to fight in the sky of France, but they were launched from the UK and they flew back to the UK. I don't see Russia should withdraw from its naval base, as that Russian force may be the only dependable anchor for peace in Syria. I don't know whether Russia should continue to support Assad or not. If not, should Russia organize a provisional government from the Syria land around the Russian naval base?
The USSA doesn't even like the ME either. You can't buy the loyalty of these people but you can only rent them. You can't just print money forever to bribe these desert people, while commodities and resources in ME are already at their limit.
The USSA has massive economic problems that demand our intentions elsewhere, as Trump said. The USSA will likely allow Israel to do whatever it wants as Americans will limit their direct presence in ME. The USSA will outsource the dirty works to Israel from now on, as I see it.
The US military has consistently refused to withdraw from Syria, despite its presence there being entirely illegal. The Pentagon had occupied huge swathes of Syria, the most productive ones at that, oil and wheat, by exploiting Syria's helplessness during the peak of ISIS insurgency when the Syrian Army had got too bogged down on multiple fronts and become too weak to protect Syria from invasion and dismemberment. The Pentagon and Mossad have effectively vivisected Syria politically and such had been the status quo for years on end. Says Uncle Sam, "In view of the strategic importance of the Levant to us and our allies, we do not forsee our forces ever leaving that region".
From the aforegoing precedent, it seems plain obvious that it would be unwise and possibly unethical of Russia to agree to any withdrawl from its military bases in Syria which it had built in the first place solely upon the invitation of the legitimate government of Syria under the doctrine of collective defense. If the White House dismisses the Assad government as a dictatorial regime despite the fact that elections had regularly been held in Syria, then all pf American-friendly regimes in the Arabian peninsula from Jordan and Saudia to Qatar, Kuwait and UAE are even more despotic Bedouin monarchies. The tender mercies of Islamism are legendary, but this will time around it is the Mossad and the Ziofascist quasi Phoenician Phareesical empire acting via intermediary vassals which holds the reins of this fiendish monster, and that cabal is strongly opposed in practice to the continuation of Russian presence on Syrian soil. For the sake of protection of Syrian civilians from the Islamist scourge as well as prempting the latter's wholesale splatter onto Russian mainland, it would only be prudent of Russia to obstinately resist all pressure from all quarters to vacate its bases in Syria, especially given that all of such quarters are foreign vested interests alien to Syria which possess no legal mandate or locus standi to be ordering Russians around !
Nobody will give Russia a choice.
Ziofascist quasi Phoenician Phareesical empire// which country is it and explain?
bot alert.
that's a bot? while some facts are true most of what is said above is unbelievable
My mistake, Raj.
Zio-oligarchic corpimperialist cabal, ensconced in citadels masquerading as bourses. Aliens who stole much of Amica from cowboys, after covertly disenfranchising the latter economically, socially and politically ; and infiltrating, subverting all democratic institutions and gritesquely transmogrifying them beyond repair. This cabal has expropriated the entire edifice of western imperialism which had been assiduously built over the centuries by cowboys, and with itself at the helm, is now poised to fling its sheeple hosts wholesale as expendable cannon fodder in the line of nuclear fire in its zero sum gambles of vanquishing Russia for the sake of global economic dominance.
Another interesting feature of this, as one steps back to take in the panoramic view, is just how strange it is that the Palestinians have been defended only by the Shia--at great cost to the latter--while the Sunni Arab world sinks further into fecklessness and lethargy.
Good analytical piece from former Indian diplomat, M.K. Bhadrakumar--"Winners and Losers in Syria."
He says, in part:
"Suffice to say, Turkish occupation of Syrian territory may assume a permanent character and even a quasi-annexation of the regions is within the realms of possibility. Make no mistake, the Treaty Lausanne (1923), which Turkey regards as a national humiliation, has just expired and the hour of reckoning has come for reclaiming the Ottoman glory. The present Turkish leadership is committed to the geo-strategy of Neo-Ottomanism.
"In all probability, therefore, what is at stake is the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and the disintegration of the country as a state. It has been reported that Israeli tanks have crossed the border into southern Syria. No doubt, Israel aims at grabbing much more than Syrian territory beyond Golan Heights. The dream of Greater Israel has taken a giant step toward realisation. Next follows Lebanon which Israel cannot but aspire to control if it is to be the dominant regional power in the Levant and an influencer in the politics of Eastern Mediterranean. According to Israeli media, Tel Aviv has direct contacts with the Islamist groups operating in southern Syria. It is no secret that these groups were being mentored by the Israeli army for over a decade.
"The heart of the matter is that Iran’s regional influence significantly diminishes as the resistance groups (which are largely Shi’ite) become rudderless and disillusioned. This not only works to the advantage of Israel but also triggers a profound shift in the balance of forces regionally, which will have resonance for the current conflicts in the Greater Middle East as a whole in a long term perspective — Gaza, Lebanon and even as far away as Central Asia and South Asia. The bottom line is that the genie of al-Qaeda is out of the bottle, finally, and there is no stopping its pan-Islamic agenda. "
https://www.indianpunchline.com/winners-and-losers-in-syria/
Actually, that treaty had awarded a much much larger piece of territory to the newly independent state of Syria as part of the Aleppo province. However, Kemal Ataturk of Turkey scoffed at that treaty, and annexed the greater part of projected Aleppo province on force of a military campaign, much like Turkey annexed and completely subsumed the ethnic-Armenian province of Qilicia. The world is now accusing the Syrian Arab Army of cowardice. But then, the Arab soldiers serving in the armies of Jordan, Saudia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are even more timid. If Indian world war 2 veterans who fought against Turkey at Gallipoli and elsewhere are to be believed, so are the Turks one of the least intrepid people on earth. It is only so long as they are faced with a far weaker or disadvantaged adversary that the people mentioned hereafore flex their muscles, because bullying, humilitating, exploiting and otherwise victimising those weaker than themselves is second nature to them. It is under such illusions of perceiving Russia as a paper tiger that Erdogan has joined the NATO schemers in a grand plan for reigniting the Basmachi fires all across the Turkic former Soviet republics as well as resurrecting the medieval Turko-imperialist Khanate of Sibir in a huge stretch of Russia amounting to one third of its total landmass, under the conviction that Russia is too shy or hesitant to be able to muster the courage to answer Turkey, let alone the latter's NATO master in its own language. All of Turkey's projected transgressions against Russia which are in the offing proceed from this fundamental premise. The day such mischief is matched with force as befits it, all of Turkish bravado will evaporate in thin air, because deep down in their hearts, the Janissaries are among the most cowardly beings on earth ! But until then, no amount of appeasement of Erdogan by Russia in form of knowtoying before his illicit neo-Ottomanist ambitions is going to stop him in his tracks, but will only embolden Turkey to undertake evermore dastardly adventures, because it is not in the nature of the Turkish soul to take kindly to those who meekly submit before Turks in any measure no matter whether out of compulsion or misplaced courtesy.
Seriously. Damascus is across the mountains from Beirut. Both cities are beautiful before Western Politics entered. Families left in the 70’s . Damascus was donkeys and sand. Our Bierut contact is barely surviving as a long time resident. This “Paris of the Mediterranean “ has US MIL-Pentagon-DC-EU-UN-Congress written all over it. Residents walk through rubble for limited daily shopping. Banking services are weak. WTF. Just leave cuz you can’t fix what has been made.
Damascus was a historical city for centuries. Syria was a Christian area centuries ago.
I see no way the US and its NATO quislings are going to allow Russia to maintain its military presence in Syria hereafter, DEAL or NO DEAL notwithstanding. The Pentagon simply is unable to reconcile itself to the idea. Except if Russia demonstrates the will power to match bullying tactics by the Pentagon and its proxies with an eye for an eye and a fist for a fist. Otherwise, I can envisage a vista of drone swarm attacks on both Hmeim airbase and Tartus naval base, originating from all sides including American frigates, American Army bases, Israel and of course the HTS. Needless to say, the HTS will claim dubious responsibility by owning up all of those attacks to cover for NATO and Israel, much like both Israel and US had been launching unclaimed attacks from their respective UAV's on those Russian bases during the heydays of ISIS insurgency. It is doubtful whether Russia will be able to spare enough defensive firepower in the form of anti-drone ammunition or the S 400's from its Ukrainian theatre to match the impending drone swarms threatening its bases in Syria. The only viable option, short of a complete retreat or withdrawl, seems to lie in going on the offensive in some measure, but that would depend on the political will and weighing of all pros and cons. Until then, I am not very optimistic about the future of Russian bases in Syria, eventhough I certainly am not hoping for anything ominous to befall them even for the sake of proving my surmises right, nor would I bet my money on such a prediction. However, the Russian leadership perhaps really will need to do a rethink of the conservative approach to policy after taking fresh stock of the entire situation (anew).
A very large number of sex therapy clinics have sprung up across Israel in recent years. In most of those clinics, the government of Israel pays the clinic owners or so called sex-therapists, for "sexual rehabilitation" of such Israeli military personnel who have lately been suffering loss of libido in the aftermath of combat injuries, or from depression consequent upon remorse for excesses committed upon adversaries in the line of military duty. Israeli soldiers are by convention bereft of the liberty to voice their personal remorse or feelings of guilt in public, or even to friends in the military or amongst civilian populace. The pent up feelings of guilt as pitted against a lifetime of self superior and self rectitudinal indoctrination, result in a conflict of psychology which has been wreaking havoc with the mental health of Israeli soldiers. And the government of Israel in its enlightened wisdom has decided that pampering such "traumatized" soldiers with bounties of lascivious extramarital carnal indulgence, is the best remedy for all of those mental and psychological ailments engendered by circumstances of their military assignments. In those sex therapy clinics, male Israeli soldiers are retaught the ABC of love making from scratch, by female psychologists in a very seductive and lewd environment, laden with sexually explicit scenes painted all over the walls and outright vulgar language and tone used by those psychologists. But the icing on the cake is the mandatory practical sessions, which invariably follow those didactic lectures and interactive one to one dialogues between male Israeli soldier and his female sex therapist. At the end of those sessions, the soldier is retired to a Cosy room sporting all the features of a luxury brothel, and provided a real female sexual partner who is little more than a sexual serf, for enacting all of his latent and dirty sexual fantasies on that unfortunate women. In fact, just prior to commencement of those "practical" sessions which are nothing short of legalised prostitution subsidized by the government, the real life spouses of those Israeli soldiers are summoned to the clinic, and cajoled to encourage their husbands to shed off all inhibitions before undertaking their libidinous feat of impressive performance in that brothel, and to assure those husbands that they should not worry in the least about embarrassment from their wives. The wives are told that those carnal liaisons in the brothel are simply part of the state's endeavour to keep Israeli Army in fit shape, and are something the whole nation must unquestioningly feel proud about. The male soldiers are also especially warned by their therapist or instructor, not to get carried away by allowing soft feelings to develop in their hearts for their one night stand female partners, who are to be treated as beings with no greater status than temporary sex mannequins. The million dollar question is, who are the women who are being trafficked by the Israeli sex therapy public- private partnership syndicate into those brothels for satiating the carnal appetite of Israeli soldiers and wayward Israeli male civilians? The Torah proscribed adultery and prescribes death by stoning for the act. As such, it is most unlikely that the Israeli state will incentivate female Israeli Jewish nationals to prostitute themselves in those state-patronized brothels. It is highly suspected that unsuspecting Palestinian Muslim women, picked up under pretext of routine questioning by the IDF, are being thrown for sexual exploitation amounting to rape in those brothels, and are then being forced to keep silent about those monstrosities for the rest of their lives out of fear of social stigmatization if the Mossad goes overboard with defaming them by revealing spicy details of their coerced sexual encounters with Israeli soldiers.
There is reason to believe that the Hamas, originally goaded into emergence by the Mossad itself as a countervail to influence of Palestinian faction Fatah, is not quite the "proxy" of Iran it has been made out to be in recent years. In fact, some of the mouthpieces of covert Mossad propaganda who feign Islamist leanings such as CJ Weleman, have gone so far to say in exonerating Iran in this respect that Iran has not killed a single Isreali soldier in the entire duration of its existence on earth. (CJ Werleman in fact taunts Iran for not killing Israeli nationals who are all Jews by default, yet no one accuses this man of antisemetism because he is peddling propaganda for the Israeli side. CJ Weleman moreover lays the blame on Iran's proxies for alleged "massacre of thousands of Palestinians in Syria" perhaps in tacit reference to some of the 150000 strong Uieghur terrorist desperadoes in the ISIS who had made fatuous claims of being Palestinian by ethnicity, some of whom had perished in skirmishes with heroic Syrian defenders ). Iran's association with the Hamas seems limited to congenial talking terms with that outfit; and anyways now with Syria and Iran effectively out of the picture, it would be interesting to see if the Palestinian Queen of Jordan, nicknamed "Mother of Israel and Palestine" because of her exceptional soft corner for Israel in addition to her ubiquitous reverence by Palestinian diaspora in Jordan, can manage to bring lasting peace to Israel by pacifying the restive Hamas with the soothing ambience of her red lipstick and a bewitching wink of her eye.
Shocking but probably mostly true
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- Why trial of 2nd Trump assassin has been postponed – because of (CIA) “complications”
- Why CIA removed and torture destroyed Pakistan’s most popular president ever, Imran Khan – because of his “aggressive neutrality” against “unprovoked” war against Russia
- The role of Afghanistan’s heroin and arms smuggling to finance “unprovoked” war in Ukraine primarily through Romania – Taliban’s second heroin prohibition is, according to CIA, a “tragedy for world”
- Same judge that for years prosecuted Andrew Tate per US request, has disqualified seasoned diplomat Calin Georgescu, who had 63+ % advantage over NATO candidate -- two days before elections -- same pattern as in Syria (most brutal economic sanctions recorded), Georgia, Libya,
- The critical role of Romania-Pakistan in State Dept’s war against Russia
Note: ALL these and other horrible crimes were during Pompeo/Trump administration
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The idea that the present catastrophic outcome in Syria could have been averted had Mr Assad ceded substantial concessions to Turkey's proxies is an untested one. No one can say for sure whether it would have worked, unless of course it had actually been implemented and then the world had subsequently gotten to witness the consequences. However, one can hazard reasonable guesses from the examples of Libya and Iraq which came before Syria. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had made a 180 degree about turn in the 2000's, burying all differences with the west and opening all sectors of the economy in his country for exploitation by western MNC's in an all out effort to appease the USA and forge strong friendship. However, the west did not stop at that, and ransacked Libya via an outright invasion by NATO aided by its Al Qaeda affiliates, and also made a horrible example of Gaddaffi himself. For, the Zio-oligarchic MNC's whom Gaddaffi had so generously allowed into his country, were not contented with swallowing simply the chunks legally surrendered to them by Gaddaffi on a platter, but instead they wanted total colonial ownership over all of Libyan land. Likewise, Israel has unleashed hell and mayhem on Syria in pursuit of its ambition to annex the Levant to Greater Israel via the agency of Erdogan's hounds reeked in paleolithic savagery. But what does this portend for the Arab lackeys of Anerica in the broader Saracenic peninsula. Less than half a decade down the line, I can imagine the entire region from Jordan through Saudi Arabia to Oman becoming an anarchic synctitium of brute jihadists devoid of national affiliation, as a spillover from the HTS and its ISIL affiliates whose members include hundreds of Jordanians and Saudis besides thousands of Central Asians and Turkic Uieghurs; in turn evoking very stern response from the rulers of those Sheikhdoms in terms of curtailing of civil liberties and repressive measures on the populace, transforming the region into 20th century embodiments of the rampant social injustice and exploitation of masses typified by biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. To forestall such a state of affairs from having ramifications inside Israel, I can well nigh imagine the IDF and NATO warplanes operating out of Nevatim in Israel and Incirlik in Turkey, embarking on intermittent carpet bombing sprees including likely use of nuclear bombs over the entire Arabian peninsula, killing all or any Arabs without discrimination, butchering the rich and poor alike, in the belief that such tactics will prove effective deterrents for scaring the jihadis from looking in the direction of Israel. Welcome to Riyadh, It's 9 0' clock Arabian time, 2030 under shadow of the bombs and guns, Reality Museum of 8th century AD the era of the Assassins. Waking up to Mass rape, torture by the fire and hacksaw on the ground, and raining brimstone from the skies above. Folks asked for it ! Theoretically, the recursive cycle of bombings from the sky alternating with jihad on the ground could iterate ad infinitum, until one grand moment when Islam and Arabs would have become history in the Saracenic Peninsula for good, with far-reaching ramifications globally.
Dont forget the re-building of the temple. A "defensive" border has to be put into place to prevent any uppity Muslims from marching on Israhell once that occurs.
How to stop the Greater Israel Project? Send Jews back to the Russian Pale for rehabilitation.