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Syria Falls
I have yet to fully understand how this could happened at the speed it did happen:
Syrian government falls in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family – AP, Dec 8 2024
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all detainees in jails have been set free.
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Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and turn its functions over to a transitional government.
“I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.
He did not address reports that Assad had fled.
During and after its fight against takfiri terrorists Syria had come under heavy sanctions. Its main assets in the east were under U.S. control. Israel's airforce was bombing its military infrastructure at will. It was ripe to fall.
As soon as the bogus ceasefire in Lebanon was signed Turkey unleashed its takfiri 'Syrian rebels', many of them foreigners, against Syria. These were exceptionally well armed and trained. They have (vid) night vision equipment, drones, artillery, Starlink communication and a capable, professional command.
The Syrian Arab army proved to be unreliable. Some units just vanished. Others were ordered to retreat in haste even before coming under pressure. One wonders how much of its command level has been infiltrated or bribed.
Throughout the last months Syria's allies, Iran and Russia, had sought to negotiate a compromise between the opposition and the Assad government. In the end they were unable to overcome the stubbornness of Bashar Assad. They perceived that they were being drawn into a trap and rejected to fall for it.
Syria is now likely to fall apart. There will be many bloody acts retributions. A large number of people will seek refuge.
The 'axis of resistance' has lost its main connecting rod. Logistics between Iran and Lebanon will become very difficult.
Resistance however will continue.
A few tweets that caught my eyes:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump – 23:17 UTC · Sep 5, 2013
The terrorists in Syria are calling themselves REBELS and getting away with it because our leaders are so completely stupid!
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Mark Sleboda @MarkSleboda1 – 4:27 UTC · Dec 8, 2024
RIP Syria. My God so fast. Western/Turkish intel co-opted/bought/blackmailed essentially the entire Syrian military & admin into just standing down, and the economy was so hallowed out by sanctions and occupation of Syria's oil and wheat that the state was incapable of resisting.
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asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil – 17:42 UTC · Dec 7, 2024
Ibrahim Amin of Al-Akhbar wrote a few days ago that Russia had warned Bashshar Al-Asad that the axis is collapsing and urged him to reconcile with Moscow-approved Syrian opposition. He refused. Erdogan tried to reconcile with him and he refused. Not sure what he was counting on.
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Dan Cohen @dancohen3000 – 2:51 UTC · Dec 8, 2024
There is no Syrian revolution. There is the CIA-run counterrevolution. They sound the same, but are complete opposites.
Syria has lost its sovereignty to competing gangs of Turkish and Israeli-backed jihadist mercenaries who are united in their hate for religious minorities. A dark day for humanity.
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Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi – 5:06 UTC · Dec 8, 2024
Bear with me: if the West bet on Russia and Iran turning this into a wide and prolonged bloodfest in which they will be exhausted, softening Iran for a planned fatal blow, it makes a lot of sense for Putin to not swallow the bait, right? And make Syria the West's headache, instead of his? Let the Americans navigate the labyrinth of interests and hostilities in Syria.
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asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil – 16:17 UTC · Dec 7, 2024
I never have a good word to say about the Syrian regime (and never written or said a word of praise for the regime, since Hafidh Al-Asad days) but: how can we talk about Syria and not talk about Israeli-US plans for the region to destroy state and society in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Libya? No matter how ugly a regime is, US and Israel manage to replace it with something much worse. Look at Libya and Iraq. In Afghanistan, the US established a regime so repugnant that people preferred the Taliban.
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Michael Tracey @mtracey – 5:59 UTC · Dec 8, 2024
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which has now seized power in Syria, was declared by the US State Department as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group on May 17, 2018. What's the "over-under" on how much longer that designation remains in place?
Assad´s stubborness in denying acceptance of an opposition which allied with foreign powers brought a terrorist mercenary force which destroyed wide swaths of the country and its world heritage sites plus facilitating the appropiation of the oil and gas fields plus the most fertile lands which, this way, got in the hands of the US to be illegally exploited, ruining the country?
Well, that does not sound like stubborness but like a principled person remaining fidel to his principles on not sharing the country with clear bandits.
It is as if now the Russians would advise the current government in Georgia to share government and parliament with those who have collected minority votes and are setting the surroundings of the Georgian parliament on fire creating continuous turmoil….one has to have stomach for that, and the Assads, obviously, lack such, hence their health state…
Would Russia, or Iran for that matter, convene to such arrangement in their countries? I´ll tell you, no, thus, “advise I give that for me I do not have”, that we say around here…
Neither Russia, nor Iran, grow stronger with this move…they are betting on that Trump will fullfill his electoral promises, in a country like the US where it is amoral people who rules really..
Good luck with that…the people and governments of the so called now Global South are taking note…like they are taking all the disidents in Europe…
I wish all the best to the Assad family, the suffering they all carried through this long assault and sacrifice of the Syrian nation was obviously evident on them phisically. They did all what they could.
In their favor, I visited Syria some few years before the war and found a prosperous functioning country where restaurnats were full of families, bazars plenty of women doing the shopping at sunset, and you could walk safe even at night to go dinning, something you can not do today in the US or Europe…to the extent that I left with the intention of returning soon for a sabatic year with the goal of learning arabic…of the so comfortably I felt while staying there…
Education was universally mandatory, and thus, you could see little beduins so well combed and tidy, going to school by the side of the road when travelling through the country…..Why a tirant would want its population being educated at universal level, one wonders…
In the new Syria of the Muslim Brotherhood, forget about it, liberal capitalism in its most extreme form will be impossed and thus, from now on, there will only study the rich and their descendants so that to ensure the government never falls into the hands of the people so as to asure their issues are also taken into account. Probably something that it is of the liking of Moscow….
Such warm, caring and helpful seemed to me that Mediterranean brotherly people…I felt like at home…never will forget them, because Syria will never be the same as she originally was, the most tolerant place in the Middle East…And I can tell it because I have travelled the whole Middle East, except Irak and Lybia, and that, thank you to the US and its WOT, since I had no the time to go there before those countries were destroyed by the usual destroyers of civilizations, peoples and countries, US “coalition” of terrorists and plundering Western corporations…
Crying for Syria…and Lebanon, which I visited more recently, some few yars ago, out of deduction, from of my affiction to geopolitics, that it will be invaded by the terrorists who now are now taking over Syria, as they were already infiltrating Tripoli in the north….
Wondering whether this is another nail in Europe´s coffin, and somehow Russian vengeance, since the sure flood of refugees who do not want to live in an islamic country under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood will leave for here, where things are in a not good shape, thanks to the US and the UK, their terrorists attacks against vital infrastructures, and their foreign agents placed in the European Comission which take care of our complete ruin…
On a side note, when I visited Syria, the restaurant next to the Crac des Cavaliers castle was ruled by a big funny transvestite who went out of his way to ensure that we never lacked anything and left plenty, chanting in perfect Spanish..( still I can here him…as if I was there…) “más pollo, más patatas?”…Would you imagine such thing happening in a Muslim Brotherhood ruled country?
Unforgetable free Syria… and unforgetable last years of our youth…which will be no more….
Hours before leaving, I was observing, from my hotel room window, a woman who, dressed in black abaya, walked in a quiet way in that warm last hours of a late summer day, wondering when I would return… and whether things would remain the same, so placid, in that other corner of the Mediterranean…premonitory, isn´t it, that of the woman in islamic attire as the last view of Syria?
I hope such civilized for milennia people will not be exterminated by the usual barbarians thieving vultures from the US/UK, Israel and Arabian sands…but, could Russia or Iran guarantee that? I doubt it, since they could do nothing while the Gazaoui people is being exterminated from the face of Earth…
Bad times for humanity… when brutal force, greed and fanaticism steps over tolerant, peaceful, unarmed people of the world…
Time to take shooting lessons, so that the same fate ( which will for sure come for our countries, as the evidence of how many barbarians, who have not come to work here, we have already inside, point at…) do not swallow us all?
Neither Russia, nor Iran, nevermind the world, is a more secure place now when terrorist have taken over such a huge country….Free way for the Caucassus terrorists… if trained and reunited in such ammount…
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Dec 8 2024 13:33 utc | 170
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