Syria, Syria, Syria...
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 15:03 last edited by
We used to hear about it all the time. Not so much anymore. Yet civil war still goes on apparently.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 15:52 last edited by
Putin asks to 'restore order'.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 16:13 last edited by
Very simple. Up until recently, the force that upheld Assad was hezbollah. Now they have been decimated and are not available to protect Assad from the Syrian rebels.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 16:22 last edited by
Be a damn shame if they paraded his head on a pike through Damascus.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 18:44 last edited by
I spent ~ two weeks in Homs Syria (pre-war of course). The most outstanding memory was groups of kids that looked around teen age years hanging around on the street corners carrying machine guns.
Crossed to the other side of the street when I saw them.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 19:31 last edited by
@Mik said in Syria, Syria, Syria...:
Be a damn shame if they paraded his head on a pike through Damascus.
Talk like that makes Tulsi cry.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2024, 19:33 last edited by
Not that whoever replaces him will be substantially better, but he has earned his time in hell.
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wrote on 1 Dec 2024, 09:41 last edited by
From a Ukrainian point of view
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From a Ukrainian point of view
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wrote on 15 Dec 2024, 02:37 last edited by
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wrote on 19 Dec 2024, 21:18 last edited by
Basic foreign policy
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wrote on 22 Jan 2025, 13:38 last edited by
Tartus is out of Russian hands. At least for the moment. I doubt Syria's new government is very friendly to Moscow in the foreseeable future.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/syria-deals-blow-to-putin-s-fleet-in-mediterranean/ar-AA1xEcDd
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wrote on 22 Jan 2025, 14:44 last edited by Renauda
Having wonHaving lost the hearts and minds of the Syrian locals:“The Russians based nearby often raided our neighborhood,” he says. “We were terrified of them, especially the Chechen fighters. We avoided interacting with them, but it wasn’t a peaceful relationship. They were monstrous. They would often come to our market and just take whatever they wanted. But what could we do?”
Abu Salmun, an elderly man standing nearby whose face is scarred by an explosion during the siege, interrupts Latif.
“Under the 2018 agreement, Assad’s forces couldn’t enter Ghouta. So it was the Russians who handled security,” he explains. “Assad had the Iranians behind him, and the Iranians had the Russians behind them. In the end, it was the Russians who called all the shots.”
