If Assad falls....
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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That’s pretty good.
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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.
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@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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@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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@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.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525.
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Interesting piece on what now and Russia's declining influence.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd0zz5edqo
Although not confirmed this is actually from Assad
Assad's reported statement was put on the Telegram channel belonging to the Syrian presidency on Monday, although it is not clear who currently controls it - or whether he wrote it.
In it he says that, as the Syrian capital fell to rebels, he went to a Russian military base in Latakia province "to oversee combat operations" only to see that Syrian troops had abandoned positions.
Hmeimim airbase had also come under "intensified attack by drone strikes" and the Russians had decided to airlift him to Moscow, he says.
