If he declines to cut a deal, then Russia might punish him by not letting him live out the rest of his days in Moscow if he’s overthrown, let alone evacuate him if the need arises.
"...Russia might punish him by not letting him to live out the rest of his days in Moscow if he’s overthrown, let alone evacuate him if the need arises."
Jeez, Assad, you wanna cut a deal, man: you DO NOT want to end up in somewhere like post-Biden Wokelandia London. It is NOT what it was when you studied/worked here only a couple-three decades ago! It doesn't have to be Moscow: there are loads of wonderful places just as alluring, and perhaps even more comfortable for their welcome, throughout Russia. Why not try Vladivostok? The Far East is only just starting to warm up now. It would be great for your kids (and their kids). Foggy Albion and the rest of EurWOKEia, on the other hand, are well into terminal decline now.
Hassan Yoseff, Israel's most state-jacent proxy in the Islamic world, who likes to be addressed as "Son of Hamas" in allusion to his background as a renegade Islamist, who is incidentally also an avid critic of Islam, has often let it slip in interviews that he believes that President Vladimir Putin of Russia had sponsored the October 7 carnages wrought by the Hamas in Israel, because Putin supposedly intends to get even with the west's most favourite darling for the sake of inducing America and NATO to divert some of their top notch military capabilities to the mideast thereby easing pressure on Russians in Ukraine. Hassan Yoseff has articulated such opinionated accusations chiefly on platforms which are known to be mouthpieces of Israel. There is zero evidence to corroborate these sweeping assumptions, however, to the best of my knowledge. Even as early as the mid 1980's, in an interview to a leading news magazine having wide circulation in India, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had categorically branded Russia's forerunner, the Soviet Union, as a "state sponsor of international terrorism". Again, zero evidence to the best of my knowledge. If anything, it was the Mossad which had been imparting counter-espionage training to jihadists from the terrorist outfit which blew up Russian civilians with a bomb at Kabul airport. Over the years, it would seem Mr Putin has tried his hand at a genuine rapprochement with Israel, with eagerness to dump many of the prejudices inherited from the Soviet Union. But from the pronouncements of Hassan Yoseff and numerous other mouthpieces of Israel, it is clear that Israel under Netanyahu is not prepared to forego its distaste for Russia, come what may. It would only be reasonable to assume that Russia is well aware of this reality beneath the veneer of diplomatic sweet talk from all sides.
"...Netanyahu is not prepared to forego its distaste for Russia..." "It would only be reasonable to assume that Russia is well aware of this reality."
It would, indeed, I agree. Nonetheless, I would find it most reassuring, and I'm sure many others likewise and even more so, if he were to make that clear in up-to-date terms; reflecting, for example, on such new realities as the genocide (now officially UN confirmed) in Gaza, American/Israeli (Jewish) 'ownership' of the Ukraine, e.g. through 'Blackwater', funding to drive the military industrial complex to arm the Ukraine, and undertaking ongoing commitments (negotiations) to perpetuate such ownership and funding.
Personally, I also have this thing about the terrorist attack on the NordStream pipelines: I feel it's really important to get that tidied up meticulously, so that everyone has a much clearer idea about what is and what isn't OK, so that everyone knows there ARE some rules, which NO-ONE is above. Naturally, some form of reparation is in order, and I really do believe Putin should be spearheading that. Like you indicate above, I feel this would only be reasonable, and, I affirm here, people need some indication of this.
KISS: enough is enough, already: bollocks to the sweet talk!
As an outsider, I think the best way is for Assad to soften up and conciliate. He likely will get back Allepo and Hama. He might squeeze out some oil royalty from Kurds area. But Assad would still control Damascus and have sea access around the Russian naval base. His condition for settlement, however, should be a joint pressure from pan-ME to get the Americans out. There he would get a smaller oil field, better communication path to Iraq and Iran; and obtained time to rebuild his army. Since (one of) the elite division is supposedly lead by his own brother, the corruption in te SAA is likely deep. If Assad is an able administrator or true nationalist, then he can focus on making the Syria he still controls to be better and more prosperous than the other parts. Other than Moscow, he probably can find some other place to exile if he chooses. However, Russia would then have a legal problem: wihout a proper governmet n Syria, how do Russians justify their naval base in Syria?
Americans won a war more than a hundred years ago because they had larger guns and more battaliions. A law-abiding country can stay only at the host's invitation. A lawless bully can do whatever they want. They have their narratives; we have our thoughts. The problem is: what would the general masses think and do? After all, they have the same one vote as I do. If one believes in the American style of democracy, then keeping the people stupid is a must. However, if the people are kept stupid, the nation will also lose innovation and renewal abilities sooner or later.
"...if the people are kept stupid, the nation will also lose innovation and renewal abilities sooner or later."
This was my greatest disappointment about Trump: I felt (and still feel) he should have used the 'Fall of Minneapolis' (https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com) to explain to the electorate how they had been misled. Of no lesser importance, he could (and should) have undone the terrible injustice 'lawfare' perpetrated against those poor souls languishing in prison, Chauvin, et al., by getting it out in the open during his campaign and standing behind it. (And, yes, I have read and understood, the counter-narrative, e.g. https://glennloury.substack.com/p/we-were-too-quick-to-praise-the-fall.) This isn't just pointless digression; the point is, America should have learnt how to stop being a 'lawless bully' long, long ago, and they should have done so with the help of understanding politicians explaining to them why that is so. One of my favourite mantras is, 'The greatest difference between Russia and America is that they have good politicians in Russia.' Woe to those who try not to understand this, to those who, "...lose innovation and renewal abilities...".
Chinese after learning the western way after 1840, have continuously debated the relative merits of governing by person versus governing by law. When I was young, I believed in the western "governing by law". Black letters on white paper, everything is so clear. Then I learned that Chinese society will take at least a hundred years to learn the values of laws, if ever. After I observed American politics for more than half of my life, I started to realize that a system cannot govern itself, at least not so in a system of people. In the world of computers, the operating system controls everything. If there is a conflict, then somebody has made a programming error, period. The human world strongly depends on good leaders, and good leaders are what most societies, cultures, and schooling systems have failed to produce.
I am unable to answer. According to Laozi, only those who do not want to take advantage of owning the political power, but do have the capabilities, can be given the political power. In reality, that means there have to be guardians who are as honorable and almost as capable as the supposed to be wonderful leaders. It is possible to set up such a council of guardians who will decide the next leader. However, history suggests such councils themselves cannot last long without losing their own impartial qualities. In Chinese 2000+ years of documented history, good-years rarely last more than ten years; and only twice, I think, reached 30-year span. But I think those 30-year periods were claimed probably only due to exaggeration by historians.
Israel has vowed to oust Russia from Syria, and placating Israel no end will never guarantee the security of Russian bases in Syria. Israel is so intolerant of Russia that it has tried everything in its power to pressurise India to betray Russia vis a vis Ukraine, by swearing on the verge of friendship as well as issuing outright blackmail of sanctions and punishment from Israel's stooges in USA and Europe. However, Indians are not of such lousy moral character as would cave in before Israeli pressure, and likewise neither is Russia so stupid that it would even contemplate ditching the legitimate Assad government in face of carrot and stick pressure from Israel. The whole world knows that ungratefulness and trecherousness is centrestage to the paleolithic ethic of Ziofascists, grounded in a desert vandal worldview since millenia.
The ISIL proxies of Mossad have enacted hundreds of Oct 7 style carnages in Syria, and abducted Syrian civilians numbering more than 30 times the number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and shifted those hapless prisoners to makeshift penitentiaries located in ISIS training camps on Israeli soil where they are being held under threat of murder for ransom from their family members back home and demands to provide shelter to Syria-based ISIS terrorists in the homes of those family members.
Iraq had to face a horrenduous fate at the hands of sex-maniac trigger happy American troops, only because its President Saddam Hussein had allowed the Scandinavian Hans Blix to decapitate its missile arsenal in good faith, under the wishful thinking that a defanged Iraq would move America to compassion and the Zio-oligarchic deep state based in western bourses will relent in its aggression against Iraq out of pity. Likewise, all Israeli assurances, verbal or implied, made before Russia are not worth even an ash tray. Israeli foreign policy is driven purely by considerations of insatiable greed of Zio-oligarchic corpimperialists, and there is no place for any gratitude for past favours in this relationship. In fact, such notions are anathema to Israeli world view.
There was no President Bashar Ul Assad at the time when Israel had roped in its Ziofascist cohorts in Ukraine in collusion with Jordan to wage a civilisational war against Russia in Chechnya in the late 1990's and early 2000's, neither did Bashar Assad factor anywhere in Israel's proxy war to implant a Greater Israel on Ukrainian soil. Israel has back stabbed and ransacked just about every civilisation which was naive enough to trust it and host its people, throughout its ancient and modern history.
India has nothing to do with this and what you wrote about Israel isn't true. If there was even a shred of truth to it, then Russia would have at least symbolically designated Israel as an "unfriendly country" on par with much less geostrategically significant Portugal for example.
You seem like you've consumed nothing but Resistance talking points, and the most extreme ones at that. Russia has let Israel bomb the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria literally hundreds of times since 2015 without once intervening to stop it or retaliating, not even allowing Syria to use the S-300s to defend itself or them to this day.
I don't care what alternative reality you live in, it's your life and your choice what to believe, but if you want to understand what's really going on, then you need to urgently deprogram yourself. I very much doubt that you will, you seem too far gone, but that's my well-intentioned and sincere advice that I'm sharing without any sarcasm.
Much of it IS true, I'm afraid. There may also be some truth in an observation to point out it hasn't been presented here, by 'Pramod', in the most friendly and diplomatic manner, but ultimately there is no way around much and many of the valid points he makes — true and the truth. Given the extent to which these points are shunned and ignored, I'm inclined to cut quite a bit of slack for his apparent 'over-enthusiasm' and 'lack of diplomacy'.
"If there was even a shred of truth to it..."
Yes, this is a point of concern well worth focussing on to avoid it slipping under the radar and taking on association with the other similar points raised here: Putin's 'Judeophilia' is all very commendable and noble, etc. but reality and facts on the ground really should be given more weight then theoretical perceptions of 'nobility', 'forgiveness' and 'tolerance'. I'm sure Putin is well aware of this, and suspect that's why we haven't heard much more about his great love for Jews since the Gaza genocide has become so much more open and obvious. I look forward to learning about his most recent thinking on these points in due course, soon.
"Russia has let Israel bomb the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria literally hundreds of times since 2015..."
Yes, quite! Perhaps better not to remind people about this too much any more?
"...my well-intentioned and sincere advice that I'm sharing without any sarcasm."
I too, like 'Pramod', have no doubt in the sincerity of your intentions, and appreciate your work.
Thanks for your well-meaning advice and concern, which I truly appreciate as much as your deep erudition.. It is however, only natural for humans to be inclined to trust their own judgements instinctively, and considered opinions take their own time to change, and as such I hold on to my assessments, though with an open mind receptive to all counter-opinions and arguments. Once again I reiterate that I respect your views and also appreciate the deep insights underlying them.
"...abducted Syrian civilians numbering more than 30 times the number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas..."
And paraded many of them through the streets in cages.
"...and shifted those hapless prisoners to makeshift penitentiaries located in ISIS training camps on Israeli soil where they are being held under threat of murder for ransom from their family members back home and demands to provide shelter to Syria-based ISIS terrorists in the homes of those family members."
Damn good point well-made, thank you! Rarely heard and well-put, thanks again!
Honble Mr McDdd, To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of news reports suggesting that captured Syrians have been paraded on the streets in cages in Israel. I suppose you have made mention of the circumstance of someone being paraded in captivity or cages on the streets, in possible allusion to the doings of Hamas post Oct 7, in Gaza, or perhaps some other context. If you are aware of any Syrians having been paraded naked on the streets in Israel, that would be news to me which I have thus far been completely unaware of.
Sorry about the paywalls, etc. Just Google, if you can, 'ISIS parades prisoners in cages'.
And IF there's some question about whether the Americans support the chaos caused by ISIS in Syria, just ask yourself where all the money has gone. (Hint: they just can't shoehorn enough 'people' into Al-Nusra to spend it all.) AND where have all the hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons supplied gratis to the Ukraine gone? (Hint: where Water is Black, it runs deep.)
Most sincere thanks for your kind courtesy of providing the references, Mr McDdd. In fact, I know of one occasion wherein a so called journalist from a less known western media outlet had poked sarcasm on captured Syrian prisoners held on ransom in cages in an ISIS prison albeit at a location different from the yet another one just pointed out very kindly by you, with a snide remark that they will likely never get to taste freedom and will almost certainly be executed, something which is very unbecoming of a journalist but appears more in tune with the character of an ISIS-affiliated cleric whom one could expect to "cheerlead" and lend moral credence to the horrenduous monstrosities perpetrated by the ISIS. From what I note from your references cited hereafore, it appears that holding captives under subhuman conditions and brandishing them as such as maybe some kind of war trophy is a pervasive trait cutting across the myriad contingents of ISIS posted in various geographical locales, a yet another hallmark of its incredibly savage ethos which is ultravires of humanity as we know it. It is precisely such savages of indomitable depravity, which are coveted by the Ziofascist western deep state as witting or unwitting zombie handmaiden who can be harnessed and deployed for maiming and mauling all such civilisations which pose real or potential challenge to the monopolistic Zio-oligarchic stranglehold over global economy. Russia and India are prime targets hotlisted by the schemers who fear that by dint of those huge nations' stupenduous and multifaceted endowment with mineral, human and agricultural resources, these countries are capable of evolving into self sufficient broad based comprehensive economies in due course with total vertical integration of manufacturing prowess, largely immune to outside blackmail even if walled off completely.
"...by dint of their stupenduous and multifaceted endowment..."
There is that, of course: the practical aspect. Beyond that, however, there are considerations perhaps even more important: the moral (for want of a better word) aspect.
Like a camel passing through the eye of a needle, the likelihood of any organisation, which succumbs to make use (which might be considered, 'take advantage') of money given to subversive proxy elements, e.g. in the Ukraine and/or Middle East, developing healthy relationships is significantly less than the likelihood of them being corrupted and consequently unable to make good use of resources made available to them. Life itself, of course, is the greatest resource made available (to anyone).
I do hope that's not too far off-track, that it doesn't seem completely unrelated. Perhaps better to KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!): (America-Israel first!) money is the root of all evil.
Indeed, very much true. Much of the global economic hegemony wielded by Ziomaniac corpimperialists is by way of money market manipulation as opposed to any real creation of wealth. The Zio-oligarchic deep state has fostered tje erroneous notion worldwide that money or wealth is immanent in green notes or bullion, which is not the case in reality.
"...Russia might punish him by not letting him to live out the rest of his days in Moscow if he’s overthrown, let alone evacuate him if the need arises."
Jeez, Assad, you wanna cut a deal, man: you DO NOT want to end up in somewhere like post-Biden Wokelandia London. It is NOT what it was when you studied/worked here only a couple-three decades ago! It doesn't have to be Moscow: there are loads of wonderful places just as alluring, and perhaps even more comfortable for their welcome, throughout Russia. Why not try Vladivostok? The Far East is only just starting to warm up now. It would be great for your kids (and their kids). Foggy Albion and the rest of EurWOKEia, on the other hand, are well into terminal decline now.
Hassan Yoseff, Israel's most state-jacent proxy in the Islamic world, who likes to be addressed as "Son of Hamas" in allusion to his background as a renegade Islamist, who is incidentally also an avid critic of Islam, has often let it slip in interviews that he believes that President Vladimir Putin of Russia had sponsored the October 7 carnages wrought by the Hamas in Israel, because Putin supposedly intends to get even with the west's most favourite darling for the sake of inducing America and NATO to divert some of their top notch military capabilities to the mideast thereby easing pressure on Russians in Ukraine. Hassan Yoseff has articulated such opinionated accusations chiefly on platforms which are known to be mouthpieces of Israel. There is zero evidence to corroborate these sweeping assumptions, however, to the best of my knowledge. Even as early as the mid 1980's, in an interview to a leading news magazine having wide circulation in India, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had categorically branded Russia's forerunner, the Soviet Union, as a "state sponsor of international terrorism". Again, zero evidence to the best of my knowledge. If anything, it was the Mossad which had been imparting counter-espionage training to jihadists from the terrorist outfit which blew up Russian civilians with a bomb at Kabul airport. Over the years, it would seem Mr Putin has tried his hand at a genuine rapprochement with Israel, with eagerness to dump many of the prejudices inherited from the Soviet Union. But from the pronouncements of Hassan Yoseff and numerous other mouthpieces of Israel, it is clear that Israel under Netanyahu is not prepared to forego its distaste for Russia, come what may. It would only be reasonable to assume that Russia is well aware of this reality beneath the veneer of diplomatic sweet talk from all sides.
"...Netanyahu is not prepared to forego its distaste for Russia..." "It would only be reasonable to assume that Russia is well aware of this reality."
It would, indeed, I agree. Nonetheless, I would find it most reassuring, and I'm sure many others likewise and even more so, if he were to make that clear in up-to-date terms; reflecting, for example, on such new realities as the genocide (now officially UN confirmed) in Gaza, American/Israeli (Jewish) 'ownership' of the Ukraine, e.g. through 'Blackwater', funding to drive the military industrial complex to arm the Ukraine, and undertaking ongoing commitments (negotiations) to perpetuate such ownership and funding.
Personally, I also have this thing about the terrorist attack on the NordStream pipelines: I feel it's really important to get that tidied up meticulously, so that everyone has a much clearer idea about what is and what isn't OK, so that everyone knows there ARE some rules, which NO-ONE is above. Naturally, some form of reparation is in order, and I really do believe Putin should be spearheading that. Like you indicate above, I feel this would only be reasonable, and, I affirm here, people need some indication of this.
KISS: enough is enough, already: bollocks to the sweet talk!
As an outsider, I think the best way is for Assad to soften up and conciliate. He likely will get back Allepo and Hama. He might squeeze out some oil royalty from Kurds area. But Assad would still control Damascus and have sea access around the Russian naval base. His condition for settlement, however, should be a joint pressure from pan-ME to get the Americans out. There he would get a smaller oil field, better communication path to Iraq and Iran; and obtained time to rebuild his army. Since (one of) the elite division is supposedly lead by his own brother, the corruption in te SAA is likely deep. If Assad is an able administrator or true nationalist, then he can focus on making the Syria he still controls to be better and more prosperous than the other parts. Other than Moscow, he probably can find some other place to exile if he chooses. However, Russia would then have a legal problem: wihout a proper governmet n Syria, how do Russians justify their naval base in Syria?
How do the Americans justify their naval base at Guantanamo?
Americans won a war more than a hundred years ago because they had larger guns and more battaliions. A law-abiding country can stay only at the host's invitation. A lawless bully can do whatever they want. They have their narratives; we have our thoughts. The problem is: what would the general masses think and do? After all, they have the same one vote as I do. If one believes in the American style of democracy, then keeping the people stupid is a must. However, if the people are kept stupid, the nation will also lose innovation and renewal abilities sooner or later.
"...if the people are kept stupid, the nation will also lose innovation and renewal abilities sooner or later."
This was my greatest disappointment about Trump: I felt (and still feel) he should have used the 'Fall of Minneapolis' (https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com) to explain to the electorate how they had been misled. Of no lesser importance, he could (and should) have undone the terrible injustice 'lawfare' perpetrated against those poor souls languishing in prison, Chauvin, et al., by getting it out in the open during his campaign and standing behind it. (And, yes, I have read and understood, the counter-narrative, e.g. https://glennloury.substack.com/p/we-were-too-quick-to-praise-the-fall.) This isn't just pointless digression; the point is, America should have learnt how to stop being a 'lawless bully' long, long ago, and they should have done so with the help of understanding politicians explaining to them why that is so. One of my favourite mantras is, 'The greatest difference between Russia and America is that they have good politicians in Russia.' Woe to those who try not to understand this, to those who, "...lose innovation and renewal abilities...".
Chinese after learning the western way after 1840, have continuously debated the relative merits of governing by person versus governing by law. When I was young, I believed in the western "governing by law". Black letters on white paper, everything is so clear. Then I learned that Chinese society will take at least a hundred years to learn the values of laws, if ever. After I observed American politics for more than half of my life, I started to realize that a system cannot govern itself, at least not so in a system of people. In the world of computers, the operating system controls everything. If there is a conflict, then somebody has made a programming error, period. The human world strongly depends on good leaders, and good leaders are what most societies, cultures, and schooling systems have failed to produce.
Fascinating. Just whom decides who these good leaders are? What system gives society the best means of selecting them?
They are ancient questions, but are extremely relevant right now in the US.
I am unable to answer. According to Laozi, only those who do not want to take advantage of owning the political power, but do have the capabilities, can be given the political power. In reality, that means there have to be guardians who are as honorable and almost as capable as the supposed to be wonderful leaders. It is possible to set up such a council of guardians who will decide the next leader. However, history suggests such councils themselves cannot last long without losing their own impartial qualities. In Chinese 2000+ years of documented history, good-years rarely last more than ten years; and only twice, I think, reached 30-year span. But I think those 30-year periods were claimed probably only due to exaggeration by historians.
Israel has vowed to oust Russia from Syria, and placating Israel no end will never guarantee the security of Russian bases in Syria. Israel is so intolerant of Russia that it has tried everything in its power to pressurise India to betray Russia vis a vis Ukraine, by swearing on the verge of friendship as well as issuing outright blackmail of sanctions and punishment from Israel's stooges in USA and Europe. However, Indians are not of such lousy moral character as would cave in before Israeli pressure, and likewise neither is Russia so stupid that it would even contemplate ditching the legitimate Assad government in face of carrot and stick pressure from Israel. The whole world knows that ungratefulness and trecherousness is centrestage to the paleolithic ethic of Ziofascists, grounded in a desert vandal worldview since millenia.
The ISIL proxies of Mossad have enacted hundreds of Oct 7 style carnages in Syria, and abducted Syrian civilians numbering more than 30 times the number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and shifted those hapless prisoners to makeshift penitentiaries located in ISIS training camps on Israeli soil where they are being held under threat of murder for ransom from their family members back home and demands to provide shelter to Syria-based ISIS terrorists in the homes of those family members.
Iraq had to face a horrenduous fate at the hands of sex-maniac trigger happy American troops, only because its President Saddam Hussein had allowed the Scandinavian Hans Blix to decapitate its missile arsenal in good faith, under the wishful thinking that a defanged Iraq would move America to compassion and the Zio-oligarchic deep state based in western bourses will relent in its aggression against Iraq out of pity. Likewise, all Israeli assurances, verbal or implied, made before Russia are not worth even an ash tray. Israeli foreign policy is driven purely by considerations of insatiable greed of Zio-oligarchic corpimperialists, and there is no place for any gratitude for past favours in this relationship. In fact, such notions are anathema to Israeli world view.
There was no President Bashar Ul Assad at the time when Israel had roped in its Ziofascist cohorts in Ukraine in collusion with Jordan to wage a civilisational war against Russia in Chechnya in the late 1990's and early 2000's, neither did Bashar Assad factor anywhere in Israel's proxy war to implant a Greater Israel on Ukrainian soil. Israel has back stabbed and ransacked just about every civilisation which was naive enough to trust it and host its people, throughout its ancient and modern history.
India has nothing to do with this and what you wrote about Israel isn't true. If there was even a shred of truth to it, then Russia would have at least symbolically designated Israel as an "unfriendly country" on par with much less geostrategically significant Portugal for example.
You seem like you've consumed nothing but Resistance talking points, and the most extreme ones at that. Russia has let Israel bomb the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria literally hundreds of times since 2015 without once intervening to stop it or retaliating, not even allowing Syria to use the S-300s to defend itself or them to this day.
I don't care what alternative reality you live in, it's your life and your choice what to believe, but if you want to understand what's really going on, then you need to urgently deprogram yourself. I very much doubt that you will, you seem too far gone, but that's my well-intentioned and sincere advice that I'm sharing without any sarcasm.
"...what you wrote about Israel isn't true."
Much of it IS true, I'm afraid. There may also be some truth in an observation to point out it hasn't been presented here, by 'Pramod', in the most friendly and diplomatic manner, but ultimately there is no way around much and many of the valid points he makes — true and the truth. Given the extent to which these points are shunned and ignored, I'm inclined to cut quite a bit of slack for his apparent 'over-enthusiasm' and 'lack of diplomacy'.
"If there was even a shred of truth to it..."
Yes, this is a point of concern well worth focussing on to avoid it slipping under the radar and taking on association with the other similar points raised here: Putin's 'Judeophilia' is all very commendable and noble, etc. but reality and facts on the ground really should be given more weight then theoretical perceptions of 'nobility', 'forgiveness' and 'tolerance'. I'm sure Putin is well aware of this, and suspect that's why we haven't heard much more about his great love for Jews since the Gaza genocide has become so much more open and obvious. I look forward to learning about his most recent thinking on these points in due course, soon.
"Russia has let Israel bomb the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria literally hundreds of times since 2015..."
Yes, quite! Perhaps better not to remind people about this too much any more?
"...my well-intentioned and sincere advice that I'm sharing without any sarcasm."
I too, like 'Pramod', have no doubt in the sincerity of your intentions, and appreciate your work.
Thanks for your well-meaning advice and concern, which I truly appreciate as much as your deep erudition.. It is however, only natural for humans to be inclined to trust their own judgements instinctively, and considered opinions take their own time to change, and as such I hold on to my assessments, though with an open mind receptive to all counter-opinions and arguments. Once again I reiterate that I respect your views and also appreciate the deep insights underlying them.
The last thing Russia needs is another enemy.
"...abducted Syrian civilians numbering more than 30 times the number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas..."
And paraded many of them through the streets in cages.
"...and shifted those hapless prisoners to makeshift penitentiaries located in ISIS training camps on Israeli soil where they are being held under threat of murder for ransom from their family members back home and demands to provide shelter to Syria-based ISIS terrorists in the homes of those family members."
Damn good point well-made, thank you! Rarely heard and well-put, thanks again!
Honble Mr McDdd, To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of news reports suggesting that captured Syrians have been paraded on the streets in cages in Israel. I suppose you have made mention of the circumstance of someone being paraded in captivity or cages on the streets, in possible allusion to the doings of Hamas post Oct 7, in Gaza, or perhaps some other context. If you are aware of any Syrians having been paraded naked on the streets in Israel, that would be news to me which I have thus far been completely unaware of.
True, this isn't INSIDE Israel, but I believe the principle holds, unless I've misunderstood (which is ALWAYS possible):
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/22/middleeast/isis-crisis/index.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1161558/ISIS-parades-Kurdish-Peshmerga-fighters-cages-mob.html
https://telegrafi.com/en/xhihadistet-transportojne-te-burgosurit-ne-kafaze-kercenojne-se-do-ti-djegin-video/
Sorry about the paywalls, etc. Just Google, if you can, 'ISIS parades prisoners in cages'.
And IF there's some question about whether the Americans support the chaos caused by ISIS in Syria, just ask yourself where all the money has gone. (Hint: they just can't shoehorn enough 'people' into Al-Nusra to spend it all.) AND where have all the hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons supplied gratis to the Ukraine gone? (Hint: where Water is Black, it runs deep.)
Most sincere thanks for your kind courtesy of providing the references, Mr McDdd. In fact, I know of one occasion wherein a so called journalist from a less known western media outlet had poked sarcasm on captured Syrian prisoners held on ransom in cages in an ISIS prison albeit at a location different from the yet another one just pointed out very kindly by you, with a snide remark that they will likely never get to taste freedom and will almost certainly be executed, something which is very unbecoming of a journalist but appears more in tune with the character of an ISIS-affiliated cleric whom one could expect to "cheerlead" and lend moral credence to the horrenduous monstrosities perpetrated by the ISIS. From what I note from your references cited hereafore, it appears that holding captives under subhuman conditions and brandishing them as such as maybe some kind of war trophy is a pervasive trait cutting across the myriad contingents of ISIS posted in various geographical locales, a yet another hallmark of its incredibly savage ethos which is ultravires of humanity as we know it. It is precisely such savages of indomitable depravity, which are coveted by the Ziofascist western deep state as witting or unwitting zombie handmaiden who can be harnessed and deployed for maiming and mauling all such civilisations which pose real or potential challenge to the monopolistic Zio-oligarchic stranglehold over global economy. Russia and India are prime targets hotlisted by the schemers who fear that by dint of those huge nations' stupenduous and multifaceted endowment with mineral, human and agricultural resources, these countries are capable of evolving into self sufficient broad based comprehensive economies in due course with total vertical integration of manufacturing prowess, largely immune to outside blackmail even if walled off completely.
"...by dint of their stupenduous and multifaceted endowment..."
There is that, of course: the practical aspect. Beyond that, however, there are considerations perhaps even more important: the moral (for want of a better word) aspect.
Like a camel passing through the eye of a needle, the likelihood of any organisation, which succumbs to make use (which might be considered, 'take advantage') of money given to subversive proxy elements, e.g. in the Ukraine and/or Middle East, developing healthy relationships is significantly less than the likelihood of them being corrupted and consequently unable to make good use of resources made available to them. Life itself, of course, is the greatest resource made available (to anyone).
I do hope that's not too far off-track, that it doesn't seem completely unrelated. Perhaps better to KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!): (America-Israel first!) money is the root of all evil.
Indeed, very much true. Much of the global economic hegemony wielded by Ziomaniac corpimperialists is by way of money market manipulation as opposed to any real creation of wealth. The Zio-oligarchic deep state has fostered tje erroneous notion worldwide that money or wealth is immanent in green notes or bullion, which is not the case in reality.
Bull, he made a secret flight to Russia where he was pressured to leave Syria. Putin has made already a deal with the Jewish Russia lobby and Turkey.
The question remains whether Assad's enemies will be satisfied with any political solution.