If Assad falls....
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@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.
I'd do that too until I consolidated power. Worked for the Taliban.
wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 15:25 last edited by@Mik said in If Assad falls....:
@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.
I'd do that too until I consolidated power. Worked for the Taliban.
If he can consolidate power. A big if. From what I have garnered the past few days is that there are a lot of bosses and factions among the rebel rabble. Many are quite out there in their militancy and fanaticism. He will have to be sufficiently aggressive and charismatic to remain in the forefront.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 15:55 last edited by
Afghanistan II. Swell.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:15 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:
The Kremlin said on Monday Russia has granted political asylum to overthrown Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a decision it said was taken by President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on Assad's specific whereabouts and said Putin was not planning to meet with him.
Not surprising at all. The amount of countries he could have go to is quite small.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-assad-aftermath-monday-1.7404999
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:29 last edited by
Doesn’t he have an English wife? Not that he can go there.
But she must be overjoyed.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:34 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in If Assad falls....:
Doesn’t he have an English wife?
Born and raised in London to Syrian parents.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:47 last edited by
Some interesting pictures.
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/scenes-along-path-syrian-rebels-lightning-advance-2024-12-07/
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:51 last edited by
Still, harboring Assad will not help them retain their naval base.
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So this new "boss," supposedly has renounced Al-Queda.
THere's a not-too-small part of me that is skeptical.
wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 19:04 last edited by xenon 12 Sept 2024, 19:04@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.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 19:44 last edited by
@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.
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@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.
wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 19:49 last edited by@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%
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@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%
wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 19:58 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 11:53 last edited by
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 12:13 last edited by
That’s pretty good.
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 12:21 last edited by
Friedman normally is.
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@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.
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 14:56 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 14:58 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in If Assad falls....:
falling back into the same things his father did.
Someone called him "The world's deadliest ophthalmologist."
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 14:59 last edited by
@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.
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@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.
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 15:13 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 15:16 last edited by
