It appears as though the Kremlin signaled to those outlets within its “sphere of influence” to withhold publishing worst-case scenario forecasts for now while their country’s diplomats try to avert an even worse crisis.
Well, Russia can, in the end, live without a base in Syria. It can't live with NATO in the Ukraine, so maybe Russia is getting its priorities in order.
The impression that Russia has entered into any sort of deal with Trump to trade Syria for Ukraine seems unconvincing.
All confusion will be dispelled in the coming months. If there is any element of truth in such fantastic suspicions, then we will see Trump evacuating all American and NATO soldiers from Ukraine within 3 days of assuming office, while surrendering all military equipment in their possession to Russia, and also leaving those of NATO soldiers in Ukraine who insist on staying put to fend for themselves and perish from the biting cold in their trenches. Moreover, Trump will de-freeze all of the sovereign assetts of Russia which have been seized by American and European banks, and these banks will pay reparations to Russia in gold by way of damages. Russian border guards will take up position on the Romanian, Polish, Czech and Hungarian borders of Ukraine by the 7 th day of Trump's annointment. English Prime Minister Starmer will hand over custody of former unelected regime-head Rishi Sunak to the Russian FSB for "treatment".
If these scenarios do not materialise, then it will be clinching proof of the fact that no deal has been reached between Russia and the USA, and that speculations to that effect were figments of hallucination of someone addicted to booze like the redoubtable one and only Boris Yeltsin. Jokes aside, any gains that Russia might make in Ukraine in the coming months will be attributable solely to the burgeoning military might of Russia as is being evidenced lately since the past few weeks, and not owing to any generosity or largesse from Trump or Vance or the bewitching Tawny soulmate of the Vice President.
That's true to an extent, but these are materials that are published in English, and their editors know the strongly negative connotation that this word has in that language.
They hitherto declined to describe the Assad Government as a regime, only changing tune after he fled Damascus to Moscow.
Mr. Alexander Dugin seems to have acknowledged the Syria case as "A blow is a blow" in his substack piece. I do not understand how Russia can willingly give up the naval base on the Syria coast although that location cannot be maintained in a real war. Maybe it really does not matter.
The Bays Din rabbinical in Israel, order of Sanhedrin, has called upon all Jews residing anywhere in the world to return to Eretz Israel, saying doing so is an obligation incumbent upon every Jew in the world, more so in view of the fact that Jews are in grave "danger" throughout the world.
As a result, Israel's population will swell by another 10 million, and these industrious people will make Israel the most prosperous nation in the world, an example to be emulated by all Arab neighbours such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
I personally think that all nations in the world will warmly welcome this announcement and appeal by the Bays Din Rabbinical, more so since it has to do with sacred prophesy of Judaism.
Gentleman Will Tyndall, You seem to be a very knowledgeable and learned gentleman from your saintly DP which bears the Holy Cross. I shall be glad to hear more first hand info from you in due course in areas where I admit my own knowledge is very rudimentary.
Drones above DC are Anglo-Saxons -- preparations for attack on Iran.
FYI -- It was a false flag attack to pull US into a world war but -- the ship for some reason, despite all efforts (including 5 torpedoes) failed to sink - it floated for 17 hours so rescue ships had to finally come..
Oh Dear Andrew, your bias is uncomfortably peeking through.
No surprises , Murad has never shown himself to be an apologist, always playing straight down the line. "Stunning changes in editorial policy"... "breaking Taboos"? are utter misrepresentations on your part. Have a word with yourself, though you're right suggesting that areas "are beyond the scope" of this particular piece. Stay sharp please and remain a good commentator.
Sad. Very sad. Why weak Syria is a “GAME Board” for politicians who play power games. Now we have a messy shit pile situation. Here is the danger of mistakes and tragedy.
Who emerges maturely and who egos is so angry they ESCALATE???
Is Biden bombing under Obama’s leadership or some sociopath in an agency or Pigista Nuland?
Ukraine's zElenskyi and Syria's Abu Mohammed al-Jolani are both wearing green fatigues made in Turkey: https://www.raff.com.tr/military/military-clothing/. A kind of perfect symbol of the Turks being willing tools and suppliers to the CIA.
It has been reported that President Bashar ul Asad had thought it best to relinquish power in a peaceful transition rather than risk destruction of Syria's impressive Naval and Airforce armamentarium, one of the largest in the entire Arab world, in a fratricidal civil war. However, the Golani-led HTS government which took over power following Mr Asad's peaceful abdication, has not been able to safeguard those strategic military asetts of Syria which the erstwhile government of President Bashar had taken pains at length to preserve. Israeli claims state that 80 percent of Syria's navy and Airforce have been wiped out in the more than 480 aerial bombings conducted by the IDF in past 72 hours. It is being rumoured among diplomatic circles that Israel had reached an understanding with the Golani HTS government that the latter will surrender Syria's strategic assetts to Israel in return for non-interference by Israel in the internal affairs of day to day administration of Syria, somewhat akin to the non-interference guarantees given by Americans to Taliban soon after their takeover of Kabul from the Rabbani government after having forayed into Afghanistan from their base in Pakistan, a guarantee which had been honoured by The USA until 9-11. Be that as it may, it is now abundantly clear thar the Golani government is now not capable by any means of taking on the IDF, let alone the HTF's bombastic boasts of liberating Jerusalem. Given the fact that Hamas leaders have voiced unhappiness and disapproval at receiving military aid from Shiites, which they have branded as Haraam according to Arabic news networks, it would seem that the stage is now set for Greater Israel stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile to manifest unopposed and unchallenged in its full-bloom grandeur, after "purification" of Mecca and Madina in the Hijaz as envisaged by the Israeli politician-cum-influencer Avi Lipman. If Israel has taken Prince MBS of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of Jordan, custodians of Masjid ul Haraam and Al Aqsa respectively, into confidence and if Saudi Arabia has reconciled itself to this idea in the interest of intra-Semetic peace, then I see no reason why the world at large would not be receptive to this prospect. It appears on the face of it that the Semetic world, inheritors of the unbeatable legacy of Abraham, has finally come of age in resolving all of its lingering disputes in an exemplary display of civil etiquette and maturity, setting benchmarks for others to follow such as in case of other global hotspots such as the Falklands, Northern Ireland and Texas in a congenial spirit of compromise and reconciliation.
Talk about creating an energy pipeline from Qatar through Syria and Turkey into Europe that will be an alternative to Russian gas.
Do you think this will be a viable threat to Russia? How feesable do you think this is?
Frankly Syria is out of Russia's sphere of influence and is not vital to its national security. If it could work through Turkey to have any economic interests in the country secured without being embroiled in Mid East politics than that is much better.
Islamic "revolution" is extraordinarily contagious in the collective Gulf and Hijaz where rulers are largely held to be illegitimate in popular perception. Admittedly, The HTS supremo Golani has a daunting task ahead as Saudia, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain await "liberation"; though understandably at the moment he seems to be recouping by taking a short rest pause. Future beckons Syria for a yeoman's role in the collective middle east which it seems poised to fulfil by all indications. The new Syrian government will be more than willing to partner with any benevolent peers from among the responsible world powers who can align themselves with such legitimate aspirations of Syria. Alhamdulillahir Rabbilaalameen.
So far it seems that HTS supremo does not have a good reputation. Yes, I know many intelligent leaders have different behaviors during different stages of nation-building. I guess we still have a lot to see before a conclusion of some kind. For now, I just hope the suffering for the ordinary folks can be moderate.
But what I have just said is not my personal opinion, rather it is an unmistakable logical corollary of what the honorable analyst Mr Andrew Korybko has alluded as the erstwhile Assad government's obligations to reach out compromises with "international" parties. In this respect, two points are noteworthy. There are broadly two kinds of "international" players that had been meddling in Syrian politics thus far. The first category is of Europeans who had fanned out in all directions from the crime ghettos of medieval Europe, gone on to steal and usurp 3 continents in the New World and now have the audacity to call themselves "international community" with its uppity insistence on playing conscience keeper to the entire world as guardian angels of the Neanderthal Viking world order. Needless to say, admonishments from this particular peer group have zero locus standi or validity in Syria, and deserve only to be shoved out of the other ear.
The second category of international players is the Pan Islamists as perfectly embodied by formations such as the HTS, which have very convincing claims in Syria on the premise that Arabs are essentially an Islamic society and ought to be subject to no other forms of jurusprudence save the puritanical Islamic one, as a matter of natural exercise or manifestation of self-determination. This group rubbishes all national affiliations and reckons all Arabs as one nation and the entire Islamic world as One Ummah. It goes without saying that the validity of its appealing doctrines applies as much, if not far more, in respect of the bastions and cradle of Islam and fountainhead of Bedouin culture and race in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf than in Syria or Canaan or Levant. Mr Golani has drawn wise lessons from the failure of the post Orange Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt which had relied too much on goodwill from the standing army and erstwhile power brokers. Golani has rightly understood that power flows from the barrels of his cadre's guns.
Very true. Unfortunately, many such enthusiastic acts were done with extreme brutality even if I see no other possibility due to population pressure alone.
Very apt observation, Mr Nakayama. Now that the HTS's former mentor Israel has essentially decimated all of Syrian airforce and navy vide airstrikes post takeover assumption of office by Mr Golani, I see no possibility of the HTS "liberating" Jerusalem whatsoever despite his loud rhetoric, because now the HTS essentially is left to contend with just rifles and carbines in its arsenal, which are suited only to tasks such as disciplining or controlling unarmed civilians, maybe a sea of humans if you will, in the way the Khmer Rouge militia controlled a sea of humans in its gargantuan labour camps across Cambodia. And it is only imminent that the martial spirit of the HTS has to manifest somewhere or the other, for no one can afford to stay unemployed for too long, and the sprawling ultramodern cities in the deserts of Arabian peninsula are fertile grounds beckoning the virile enthusiasts for a bewitching vacation. If ordinary folks should have to suffer in the bargain, then there is pretty much little anyone can afford to be bothered about it save Almighty God, given that the international sponsors of the ISIS did not care two hoots about such things in the first place.
I am no one to decide. That is the prerogative of the inhabitants of the Gulf, who have been divided into classes by the rulers by means of contrivances such as as much as 8 discriminatory kinds of citizenship of the same country in some instances. Theologian Experts argue that such discrimination is a lingering vestigeal accretion from Jahelia and is violative of the Islamic consciousness which forms the bedrock of collective Gulf culture and conscience.
Well, Russia can, in the end, live without a base in Syria. It can't live with NATO in the Ukraine, so maybe Russia is getting its priorities in order.
The impression that Russia has entered into any sort of deal with Trump to trade Syria for Ukraine seems unconvincing.
All confusion will be dispelled in the coming months. If there is any element of truth in such fantastic suspicions, then we will see Trump evacuating all American and NATO soldiers from Ukraine within 3 days of assuming office, while surrendering all military equipment in their possession to Russia, and also leaving those of NATO soldiers in Ukraine who insist on staying put to fend for themselves and perish from the biting cold in their trenches. Moreover, Trump will de-freeze all of the sovereign assetts of Russia which have been seized by American and European banks, and these banks will pay reparations to Russia in gold by way of damages. Russian border guards will take up position on the Romanian, Polish, Czech and Hungarian borders of Ukraine by the 7 th day of Trump's annointment. English Prime Minister Starmer will hand over custody of former unelected regime-head Rishi Sunak to the Russian FSB for "treatment".
If these scenarios do not materialise, then it will be clinching proof of the fact that no deal has been reached between Russia and the USA, and that speculations to that effect were figments of hallucination of someone addicted to booze like the redoubtable one and only Boris Yeltsin. Jokes aside, any gains that Russia might make in Ukraine in the coming months will be attributable solely to the burgeoning military might of Russia as is being evidenced lately since the past few weeks, and not owing to any generosity or largesse from Trump or Vance or the bewitching Tawny soulmate of the Vice President.
Keep in mind that the word "regime" does not have the same strongly negative connotation in Russian as it does in English.
The new Syrian government (if we can call it that) doesn't appear to be anti-Russia, so it wouldn't make much sense for Russia to be anti-Syria.
That's true to an extent, but these are materials that are published in English, and their editors know the strongly negative connotation that this word has in that language.
They hitherto declined to describe the Assad Government as a regime, only changing tune after he fled Damascus to Moscow.
Mr. Alexander Dugin seems to have acknowledged the Syria case as "A blow is a blow" in his substack piece. I do not understand how Russia can willingly give up the naval base on the Syria coast although that location cannot be maintained in a real war. Maybe it really does not matter.
https://youtu.be/2V3cE_PlIUQ?si=qGQ4-7fXjYbEorJC
The Bays Din rabbinical in Israel, order of Sanhedrin, has called upon all Jews residing anywhere in the world to return to Eretz Israel, saying doing so is an obligation incumbent upon every Jew in the world, more so in view of the fact that Jews are in grave "danger" throughout the world.
As a result, Israel's population will swell by another 10 million, and these industrious people will make Israel the most prosperous nation in the world, an example to be emulated by all Arab neighbours such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
I personally think that all nations in the world will warmly welcome this announcement and appeal by the Bays Din Rabbinical, more so since it has to do with sacred prophesy of Judaism.
Vissolava Razhjestvo and CNovim Godam.
Good Health to all Jews of the world.
Jews are not industrious. Jews have increasingly run parts of America for a solid 125 years. Everything Jews touch turns to rot.
Gentleman Will Tyndall, You seem to be a very knowledgeable and learned gentleman from your saintly DP which bears the Holy Cross. I shall be glad to hear more first hand info from you in due course in areas where I admit my own knowledge is very rudimentary.
Drones above DC are Anglo-Saxons -- preparations for attack on Iran.
FYI -- It was a false flag attack to pull US into a world war but -- the ship for some reason, despite all efforts (including 5 torpedoes) failed to sink - it floated for 17 hours so rescue ships had to finally come..
https://rumble.com/v5ybmmb-a-personal-announcement.html
Oh Dear Andrew, your bias is uncomfortably peeking through.
No surprises , Murad has never shown himself to be an apologist, always playing straight down the line. "Stunning changes in editorial policy"... "breaking Taboos"? are utter misrepresentations on your part. Have a word with yourself, though you're right suggesting that areas "are beyond the scope" of this particular piece. Stay sharp please and remain a good commentator.
Sad. Very sad. Why weak Syria is a “GAME Board” for politicians who play power games. Now we have a messy shit pile situation. Here is the danger of mistakes and tragedy.
Who emerges maturely and who egos is so angry they ESCALATE???
Is Biden bombing under Obama’s leadership or some sociopath in an agency or Pigista Nuland?
Ukraine's zElenskyi and Syria's Abu Mohammed al-Jolani are both wearing green fatigues made in Turkey: https://www.raff.com.tr/military/military-clothing/. A kind of perfect symbol of the Turks being willing tools and suppliers to the CIA.
Thank you for your inciteful and factual analysis. Much appreciated in all the confusing and conflicting reports coming out.
It has been reported that President Bashar ul Asad had thought it best to relinquish power in a peaceful transition rather than risk destruction of Syria's impressive Naval and Airforce armamentarium, one of the largest in the entire Arab world, in a fratricidal civil war. However, the Golani-led HTS government which took over power following Mr Asad's peaceful abdication, has not been able to safeguard those strategic military asetts of Syria which the erstwhile government of President Bashar had taken pains at length to preserve. Israeli claims state that 80 percent of Syria's navy and Airforce have been wiped out in the more than 480 aerial bombings conducted by the IDF in past 72 hours. It is being rumoured among diplomatic circles that Israel had reached an understanding with the Golani HTS government that the latter will surrender Syria's strategic assetts to Israel in return for non-interference by Israel in the internal affairs of day to day administration of Syria, somewhat akin to the non-interference guarantees given by Americans to Taliban soon after their takeover of Kabul from the Rabbani government after having forayed into Afghanistan from their base in Pakistan, a guarantee which had been honoured by The USA until 9-11. Be that as it may, it is now abundantly clear thar the Golani government is now not capable by any means of taking on the IDF, let alone the HTF's bombastic boasts of liberating Jerusalem. Given the fact that Hamas leaders have voiced unhappiness and disapproval at receiving military aid from Shiites, which they have branded as Haraam according to Arabic news networks, it would seem that the stage is now set for Greater Israel stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile to manifest unopposed and unchallenged in its full-bloom grandeur, after "purification" of Mecca and Madina in the Hijaz as envisaged by the Israeli politician-cum-influencer Avi Lipman. If Israel has taken Prince MBS of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of Jordan, custodians of Masjid ul Haraam and Al Aqsa respectively, into confidence and if Saudi Arabia has reconciled itself to this idea in the interest of intra-Semetic peace, then I see no reason why the world at large would not be receptive to this prospect. It appears on the face of it that the Semetic world, inheritors of the unbeatable legacy of Abraham, has finally come of age in resolving all of its lingering disputes in an exemplary display of civil etiquette and maturity, setting benchmarks for others to follow such as in case of other global hotspots such as the Falklands, Northern Ireland and Texas in a congenial spirit of compromise and reconciliation.
TL;DR victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan.
Talk about creating an energy pipeline from Qatar through Syria and Turkey into Europe that will be an alternative to Russian gas.
Do you think this will be a viable threat to Russia? How feesable do you think this is?
Frankly Syria is out of Russia's sphere of influence and is not vital to its national security. If it could work through Turkey to have any economic interests in the country secured without being embroiled in Mid East politics than that is much better.
Islamic "revolution" is extraordinarily contagious in the collective Gulf and Hijaz where rulers are largely held to be illegitimate in popular perception. Admittedly, The HTS supremo Golani has a daunting task ahead as Saudia, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain await "liberation"; though understandably at the moment he seems to be recouping by taking a short rest pause. Future beckons Syria for a yeoman's role in the collective middle east which it seems poised to fulfil by all indications. The new Syrian government will be more than willing to partner with any benevolent peers from among the responsible world powers who can align themselves with such legitimate aspirations of Syria. Alhamdulillahir Rabbilaalameen.
So far it seems that HTS supremo does not have a good reputation. Yes, I know many intelligent leaders have different behaviors during different stages of nation-building. I guess we still have a lot to see before a conclusion of some kind. For now, I just hope the suffering for the ordinary folks can be moderate.
Thanks for your valuable input, Mr Nakayama.
But what I have just said is not my personal opinion, rather it is an unmistakable logical corollary of what the honorable analyst Mr Andrew Korybko has alluded as the erstwhile Assad government's obligations to reach out compromises with "international" parties. In this respect, two points are noteworthy. There are broadly two kinds of "international" players that had been meddling in Syrian politics thus far. The first category is of Europeans who had fanned out in all directions from the crime ghettos of medieval Europe, gone on to steal and usurp 3 continents in the New World and now have the audacity to call themselves "international community" with its uppity insistence on playing conscience keeper to the entire world as guardian angels of the Neanderthal Viking world order. Needless to say, admonishments from this particular peer group have zero locus standi or validity in Syria, and deserve only to be shoved out of the other ear.
The second category of international players is the Pan Islamists as perfectly embodied by formations such as the HTS, which have very convincing claims in Syria on the premise that Arabs are essentially an Islamic society and ought to be subject to no other forms of jurusprudence save the puritanical Islamic one, as a matter of natural exercise or manifestation of self-determination. This group rubbishes all national affiliations and reckons all Arabs as one nation and the entire Islamic world as One Ummah. It goes without saying that the validity of its appealing doctrines applies as much, if not far more, in respect of the bastions and cradle of Islam and fountainhead of Bedouin culture and race in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf than in Syria or Canaan or Levant. Mr Golani has drawn wise lessons from the failure of the post Orange Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt which had relied too much on goodwill from the standing army and erstwhile power brokers. Golani has rightly understood that power flows from the barrels of his cadre's guns.
Very true. Unfortunately, many such enthusiastic acts were done with extreme brutality even if I see no other possibility due to population pressure alone.
Very apt observation, Mr Nakayama. Now that the HTS's former mentor Israel has essentially decimated all of Syrian airforce and navy vide airstrikes post takeover assumption of office by Mr Golani, I see no possibility of the HTS "liberating" Jerusalem whatsoever despite his loud rhetoric, because now the HTS essentially is left to contend with just rifles and carbines in its arsenal, which are suited only to tasks such as disciplining or controlling unarmed civilians, maybe a sea of humans if you will, in the way the Khmer Rouge militia controlled a sea of humans in its gargantuan labour camps across Cambodia. And it is only imminent that the martial spirit of the HTS has to manifest somewhere or the other, for no one can afford to stay unemployed for too long, and the sprawling ultramodern cities in the deserts of Arabian peninsula are fertile grounds beckoning the virile enthusiasts for a bewitching vacation. If ordinary folks should have to suffer in the bargain, then there is pretty much little anyone can afford to be bothered about it save Almighty God, given that the international sponsors of the ISIS did not care two hoots about such things in the first place.
I see absolutely no evidence that Saudi, Qatar or Bahrain await any liberation.
I am no one to decide. That is the prerogative of the inhabitants of the Gulf, who have been divided into classes by the rulers by means of contrivances such as as much as 8 discriminatory kinds of citizenship of the same country in some instances. Theologian Experts argue that such discrimination is a lingering vestigeal accretion from Jahelia and is violative of the Islamic consciousness which forms the bedrock of collective Gulf culture and conscience.