If Assad falls....

[jon-nyc]

Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.

But she must be overjoyed.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:

Doesn’t he have an English wife?

Born and raised in London to Syrian parents.

[taiwan_girl]

Some interesting pictures.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/scenes-along-path-syrian-rebels-lightning-advance-2024-12-07/

[Mik]

Still, harboring Assad will not help them retain their naval base.

[xenon]

@George-K said in If Assad falls....:

So this new "boss," supposedly has renounced Al-Queda.

THere's a not-too-small part of me that is skeptical.

Two things can be true. They don’t get along with them as political group, but the venn diagram of their beliefs can be pretty much (completely?) the same.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:

Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.

But she must be overjoyed.

She's also currently being treated for leukemia, so she's having a great year.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in If Assad falls....:

@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:

Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.

But she must be overjoyed.

She's also currently being treated for leukemia, so she's having a great year.

Recovered from breat cancer in 2018.

Acute myeloid leukemia,

Multiple factors influence prognosis in AML, including the presence of specific mutations, and a person with AML's age. In the United States between 2011 and 2016, the median survival of a person with AML was 8.5 months, with the 5 year survival being 24%

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in If Assad falls....:

@Doctor-Phibes said in If Assad falls....:

@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:

Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.

But she must be overjoyed.

She's also currently being treated for leukemia, so she's having a great year.

Recovered from breat cancer in 2018.

Acute myeloid leukemia,

Multiple factors influence prognosis in AML, including the presence of specific mutations, and a person with AML's age. In the United States between 2011 and 2016, the median survival of a person with AML was 8.5 months, with the 5 year survival being 24%

Hers is a bit of an odd story, to say the least. She's apparently quite western in outlook, very well-educated, good-looking, and apparently very likeable and charming. And yet there she was, married to that butcher.

[Mik]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/friedman-syria-iran-future.html

[jon-nyc]

That’s pretty good.

[Mik]

Friedman normally is.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes said in If Assad falls....:

And yet there she was, married to that butcher.

I think when they first got married, there was pretty high hopes that Bashar al-Assad was going to be different from his father. And he started out with some reforms before falling back into the same things his father did.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in If Assad falls....:

falling back into the same things his father did.

Someone called him "The world's deadliest ophthalmologist."

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in If Assad falls....:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/friedman-syria-iran-future.html

That was interesting and made good points. Hope that Syria does not turn into another Libya.

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in If Assad falls....:

And he started out with some reforms before falling back into the same things his father did

I think we all do that. In my case it's buying little electronic gadgets and listening to old BBC radio comedy. In his, it's torturing and murdering thousands of people.

[taiwan_girl]

@Doctor-Phibes

[jon-nyc]

IDF deleting Syrian weaponry.