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Dec 20 2024 
Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
Putin’s answers connect to the fog of the Forever Wars.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts.
His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish,… Continue reading -
Dec 19 2024 
Exactly like Libya: Sex slave market in Syria
It did not take long for a marketplace of Horror: Non-Terrorists in Syria’s Darkest Chapter
A harrowing video has emerged showcasing the depravity of those who came to power in parts of Syria, celebrating the enslavement of Yazidi, Kurdish, and Christian women. The perpetrators chained the wives of murdered “kafir” husbands and established a barbaric sex… Continue reading
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Dec 19 2024 
Anarchy in the Levant
Your future dream is a chaos scheme. Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Syria as we knew it is being eviscerated in real time – in geographic, cultural, economic and military terms – by an appalling… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2024 
Pepe Escobar puts Syria in a nutshell in this interview with Judge Napolitano
There are a few issues.
This interview is from yesterday. Since then, Pepe posted the following vis-a-vis the time that al-Assad described in his short explanatory briefing. This timing became controversial.
ASSAD DID NOT RUN AWAY
Finally, key details are now firmly established.
Assad did leave Damascus in the first hours of Sunday, December 8 in a Syrian Il-76,… Continue reading -
Dec 13 2024 
Syria: Mr Lavrov is not giving up on the diplomatic track
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan
On December 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.Following up on the most recent Russia-Arab states contacts at various… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2024 
A Syrian Scorecard: Key Factions and Their Backers
This was initially drawn up by Two Majors and I edited extensively.
The factions are beginning to fight. There is also a resistance standing up in Syria. It is early days but this is all to be expected.
1. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
– Background: HTS, formerly al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, has emerged as the dominant force in northwestern… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Nima and Dmitry Orlov: The Collapse of the Arab World
Dmitry Orlov has some different ideas. He says Syria and other countries in the region are not countries. They are only old 6th century tribal societies. Fake countries, not political establishments. In his view Egypt is the only country there. All that happened in Syria, is that Assad left, having taken 6… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Death of a nation: Black Flags, massacres, land grabs as vultures feed on the carcass of Syria
Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Cornered by the inexorable rise of the multi-nodal (italics mine) reality, they saw an opening for an… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Did Syria fall to a Rent-a-Jihadi mob?
Why did Bashar al-Assad allow his government in Damascus to be toppled? The 13-year-old Libya-style intervention in Syria has ended in defeat for the resistance. And I mean the whole of the resistance. For Europe of course there will be unexpected consequences with tens of thousands of new refugees already on the march, while the… Continue reading
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Dec 10 2024 
You can’t win a chess match without losing pieces
Syria had been on the board for a long time surrounded by hostile pieces. As the chess match progressed, it was only a matter of time that this piece would be captured. It is like a sudden death that everyone knew was coming, yet somehow unexpected. Very sad for loved ones, but life just goes… Continue reading
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Dec 10 2024 
Syria’s post-mortem
Terror, occupation, and Palestine.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The NATO-Israeli cabal cheering on Damascus’s fall will get more than they bargained for. Power struggles and infighting among extremist militias and civil society, each backed by different regional and foreign actors who want a piece of the pie.
The short headline defining the abrupt, swift end of… Continue reading -
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
