If Assad falls....
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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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@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.
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Interesting piece on what now and Russia's declining influence.
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wrote on 16 Dec 2024, 17:18 last edited by
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.
