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Dec 10 2024 Shock, Despair: Quo Vadis
Like Syria, when my internet connection disappeared over the weekend, I felt lost. I did not know what is happening and all I saw before the world went dark for me, was this.
So, I knew. And I mourned and I kicked against the situation, and then I started thinking it through with no informational overload.… Continue reading
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Dec 10 2024 Lessons from Syria: Assad and Putin
Why do the Brutalists Lose?
by Marat Khairullin on Substack.
Syria is important. No matter how bitter it is to realize this. But there is such a maxim, “no matter how hard the failure is, if you have learned from it, then it is no longer a failure, but the next step up the mountain.” In other… Continue reading
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Dec 09 2024 Russia’s Next Move
Pepe Escobar reviews the debacle and sordidness with Judge. And Russia’s Next Move
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Dec 09 2024 The End of Bashar al-Assad’s Rule in Syria
Kevork Almassian explains the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria and what could come next.
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Dec 08 2024 Winners and losers in Syria
After the former regime’s treacherous capitulation and abandonment of Resistance, Syria is carved up and recalibrated by the new owners.
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in… Continue reading
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Dec 08 2024 Russia: MFA Statement on Syria
We are monitoring the dramatic developments in Syria with extreme concern.
Following his talks with a number of participants in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Assad decided to step down as the Syrian President and leave the country, instructing the government to transfer power peacefully.
Russia was not involved in those negotiations.
However, we… Continue reading
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Dec 07 2024 Long Live Syria
Long life the King!
Syria has fallen.
The shocking developments must be faced.
The ramifications are manifold.
What will happen next??
What can we say, of the little we know so far?It was not 4D chess move by the civilizational-states
The Syrian Arab Army collapsed internally
Their allies were not given sufficient time to deploy to assist them
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Dec 07 2024 FM Lavrov eviscerates an Al Jazeera Journalist on Doha day
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions at the 22th Doha Forum, 07 December 2024
Question: Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, thank you for talking to Al Jazeera at the 2024 Doha Forum.
There is so much to talk to you about but I’d like to start with Syria. Those dramatic developments that seem to… Continue reading -
Dec 07 2024 Syria: What do we know
Let’s jump right in …
We know that a perfect opportune moment was unerringly exploited by the zionist/imperialist/nazi cabal to create more chaos and more lies, more theft and more plunder.
We know that an unprecedented and massive Mighty Wurlitzer Style (Mighty Wurlitzer, aka How the CIA played America) information campaign was launched at the same time,… Continue reading -
Dec 07 2024 What the US is doing in Syria – in their own words…
Brian Berletic
US DoD’s Dana Stroul admits the goal is to starve and freeze Syrians into submission, preventing reconstruction and prolonging civilian suffering until the US gets an outcome “conducive to US interests.”
The US strikes Syrian-Iranian forces to perpetuate its illegal occupation and to prolong the crimes against humanity their occupation facilitates.
🇺🇸🇸🇾What the US… Continue reading
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Dec 07 2024 Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Doha, December 7)
🔴 #LIVE: Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Doha, December 7) https://t.co/D3GizgffFn— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) December 7, 2024
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Dec 07 2024 The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast.
By Ambassador Craig Murray at www.craigmurray.org.uk.
At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria… Continue reading -
Dec 06 2024 The Syria Tragedy and the New Omni-War
Until recently, a serious geopolitical working hypothesis was that West Asia and Ukraine were two vectors of the standard Hegemon modus operandi, which is to incite and unleash Forever Wars. Now both wars are united in an Omni-War.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
A coalition of Straussian neo-cons in the US, hardcore revisionist Zionists in Tel Aviv… Continue reading
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Dec 06 2024 Erdogan’s Idlib shock shadows “Kursk”
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Companion Reading: An article referred to by Alastair from Professor Sergei Karaganov titled Reflections on the Path to Victory
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To seek a deal on Ukraine is to treat the symptom and to ignore a cure, Alastair Crooke writes.
‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise… Continue reading