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Saw it on FlightRadar24 too. There is neither airport nor airstrip in the region where the Il-76 descended towards. Either a field landing (since the Il-76 is capable of doing so), or a crash.
Pretty much. It is not China's job to fix other people's cultures / countries. We learned from Bush's War on Terror how expensive, and ultimately futile, it is to try and force change on another civilization; so these days the Middle East is mainly just a proxy region for great powers' intelligence agencies and influence operations. The Great Game in the Middle East is now played on the cheap.
It's also why I've always emphasized and fixated on demographics. It's not China's business to change, save, or rule Arabs, and it shouldn't try to. Instead it should focus on bringing more Chinese into the world. Even if more Chinese don't always benefit China, at least there is the hope that they can be united towards a shared purpose, because of common heritage and cultural psychology. There is little hope of doing that for the so called Global South.
Abandoning Damascus might be the only way to go. It is indefensible because there's no land connection from Damascus to the Mediterranean, where both the ports and the Alawite homeland is, other than through Homs.
Assad could probably do a last stand with his Republican Guard and Air Force in Tartus and Latakia, which is behind mountains with only a few roads in and out. He has a much better chance of surviving there than trying to hold positions in the desert. And even if he dies, his clan (with their military positions) should be doing a last stand.
The Republican Guard is 90% Alawite, and they're not going to be able to all flee with Assad, so it's that or... well, we've all seen or heard of the videos.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
Because he looks like he have down syndrome
Does the bill to rebuild Syria now fall on erdogan's and trumps lap. I mean maybe Russia and Iran will have the last laugh.
Less so, I think the world completely change but more importantly xinjiang has been completely changed. But if I was China I would install more border control and surveillance.
yes this is the practical demonstration of Arab Soft Power. and it will not be the last demonstration of it. Arab soft power has unlimted Wealth, Tech and Manpower behind it. Even China buys Iranian oil in Malaysia not that it matter since size of overall trade small.
Russia has that wiggle room for North-South Corridor due tremendous confidence on its Muslim population but That Soft Power warnings are indirect. Produce the demographic whose first and last priority is Russia land or else. why do you think Putin keep mentioning Russia women should have 8 to 10 children and largest meeting on demographics recently. Putin used Russian Jews to warn Iran not the Soft Power that is always in the background.
Iran was always a non entity and it could not deal with Taliban next door when its diplomats were smashed and it is same group even when non recognized present in Russia in higher profile.
Possible crash of the Il-76 somewhere west of Homs.
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