Damascus has Fallen - Syrians are inside the presidential palace

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk...
Assad is in Moscow after fleeing Syria and will be given asylum, Russian state media report - BBC News

"Moscow is trying to find a language and continue a dialogue with Syria's new leadership, and its future relationship with them.

Russia's big concern is the fate of its two military bases - the Hmeimim air base and a naval facility at Tartus, both on the coast - both of which have given Moscow a foothold in the eastern Mediterranean in the last few years.

Even though Moscow had supported Bashar al-Assad for nine years and sent him military assistance to shore him up and keep him in power, now that he's been toppled, Russia is trying to find a dialogue with the new leadership in Syria.

Russia is now stressing that all along they have wanted a political settlement of this crisis.

What's interesting here is that until very recently, the Russian media was referring to what it's calling the "armed opposition in Syria" as "terrorists". That word has gone out of reporting here and they are now being called the "armed opposition" or "opposition"."

Desperate stuff from Russia.

The takeaway seems to be that Russian protection for its allies, is worthless.

Syria
Korea
Armenia
Georgia
Romania

before Trump officially takes office

Classic Carpy, Russia,Russia,Russia,Russia, Russia into infinity with you.


Assad seems to be dead. At least that what the reports say. I don’t think he got any Russian “help”

originally posted by: watchitburn

I wonder if the State Dept will pay me? I'm pretty confident I can tell them exactly where they can find this guy.

AKA previously known as al Sharaa, changed to al Jolani.

I'll just drop this here.

main.un.org...

www.telegraph.co.uk...

originally posted by: burntheships

originally posted by: watchitburn

I wonder if the State Dept will pay me? I'm pretty confident I can tell them exactly where they can find this guy.

AKA previously known as al Sharaa, changed to al Jolani.

I'll just drop this here.

main.un.org...

www.telegraph.co.uk...

It's like the whole 9/11 narrative has gone right out the window. Everything is forgiven! History is continually rewritten with the stroke of a magic pen.

a reply to: cherokeetroy

Indeed.

Everything is not as it seems.

originally posted by: xuenchen

When did they last come out of The Stone Age? 😄

Being in many of those countries over the last 20+ years I have jokingly said there are the 3rd world countries and then there is the ME that is like 5th world countries.

Oh this

this is this is

this is too much!

Here we go again with the new show "Biden's Bullsh!t for Today" airing every morning.

So Biden is admitting and memorializing support for terrorists? lol lol lol

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Biden Claims Credit for Toppling Assad

President Joe Biden delivered a short address from the White House on Sunday, claiming credit for the toppling of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who was ousted by rebels after a long and brutal reign lasting decades.

Biden claimed that a combination of U.S. policies — isolating Assad; tying Russia down in Ukraine; and allowing Israel freedom of action against Iran and its Hezbollah proxy — weakened the regime and left it without defenders.

Catch the drift . . . . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

a reply to: xuenchen

Of course!

Take one out, put another one in.

www.pbs.org...

Its almost as if these men are puppets...

Oh...wait!

originally posted by: hangedman13
a reply to: YourFaceAgain

I would love to see some weapons inspectors get in there to analyze Assad's chemical weapons and see if they came from Iraq. I know nobody here wants to hear it, but we know for a fact that Iraq had chemical weapons. The whole angle that we didn't find many because Iraq didn't have them was delusional. They were obviously moved or hidden well enough that we couldn't find a lot of them (although we did find some. It's a myth that NONE were found.) Even some Obama officials, who were no fans of the Bush administration, said they thought Saddam sent his chemical weapons to Assad before the 2003 invasion.

Oh you mean those Russian "advisors" that coalition forces let leave Baghdad in a convoy heading towards Syria? I'm happy to see that someone else recalls the Russian/Syrian angle from back then. I'd imagine by now those weapons were either moved or distributed elsewhere.

Or used. There were numerous instances of chemical weapons being used during the Syrian civil war.

I'm impressed guys. 4 pages into this and I don't think anyone has brought up the bogus 5-year plan from General Clark about how this is all some master plan to topple Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan in 5 years.

He said that in 2007 and the "plan" supposedly dated to 2001 and was supposed to take 5 years so would've all happened by 2007, but people continued to cite this nonsense over the past 2 decades as if time doesn't exist every time someone sneezed in one of those 7 countries.

Has this place finally grown up and recognized it was bull#?

a reply to: Athetos

According to Russia he's in Moscow with his family.

Russia? Yes. This all has consequences for Russia, so why shouldn't I post about it.

a reply to: xuenchen

Biden Claims Credit for Toppling Assad

Why is this any surprise?
He's a politician, of course he tries to take some of the credit.

Every politician in his position would do exactly the same, including Trump.

Hope a bunch of the people made it to kurdish lands, they are going to have a very rough go of it.

Assad was a bad dude but he was better than who took damascus.

a reply to: Irishhaf

I think that remains to be seen.

originally posted by: Irishhaf
Hope a bunch of the people made it to kurdish lands, they are going to have a very rough go of it.

Assad was a bad dude but he was better than who took damascus.

If there's one thing I'd like to see out of this it's the Kurds get their own country.

They've supported and helped us so many times and we always end up throwing them to the wolves.

"Revealed: The UK has spent £350-million promoting regime change in Syria" www.declassifieduk.org...

a reply to: network dude

I'm not sure Assad was such a bad guy.....he was just another tin-pot Dictator of a third world country, kinda like Maduro of Venezuela.

He will, of course, be replaced by some new tin-pot Dictator that will brutalize women, close all but religious schools, launch rockets into Israel and add another million or so refugees to the pipeline into Europe. Until of course,

He's replaced by another tin-pot Dictator who will......

Rinse, repeat.

Peter Ford, ex British ambassador to Syria. This guy actually speaks his mind and tells it how it us.......................


www.lbc.co.uk...

www.bbc.com...

thegrayzone.com...

a reply to: Cvastar

I'm fairly sure that he was a very bad man.

It remains to be seen where Syria goes from here.

In particular whether they might now hold proper elections and hopefully replace a particularly brutal Dictatorship with something resembling a democracy.