It looks like some kind of under the table deal. We won't know the full terms for a while but maybe Russia gets what it wants in Ukraine in exchange for giving up its position in Syria?
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Well, Syria won't be a viable route for BRI anytime soon.
Assad and his family are in Moscow and were granted asylum in Russia according to Tass.
With 20/20 hindsight, I suspect the moment that actually doomed Syria was when China brokered a detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Good luck to that. It's easy to turn a failed MENA teapot dictatorship into an utter sh*thole with open slave markets, as the events in Libya demonstrated. Building large-scale infrastructures over lands ravaged by a potentially genocidal civil war? Won't be so easy.
"Rule of thumb":
Is this the final stage?
There were rumours Russia and Iran had disagreement on HTS, with Russia believing they were anti-American and so can be talked to, while Iran didn't think so. Of course Russia is allied with Iran so Iranian interest is considered too.
Oh and Israel is invading Syria and bombing both HTS and FSA positions in the south right now, supposedly trying to create a Druze state, the Druze were allied with Assad at one point btw. We'll see how long HTS and FSA can pretend Israel is fine people while also claiming they're pro-Palestine and ruler of Syria.
This show's just getting started, a number of way it can go, a lot of behind the scenes deal happened, a lot of games the player can play, but people who think they achieved "decisive victory" need to wait a bit longer to celebrate.
Assad might end up having the last laugh as he chills with his family in Russia.
lol what sanction?. Taliban are ideolgically aligned with Gulf Arabs. they gets what they want. Syria had no chance even with sanction lifted. if Taliban meet Arabic standards they will get more than what is known.
Meh, I didn't take that much stock into supposedly pro Israel statements from them. A jihadist regime will always be in conflict with someone who threatens Al Aqsa.
They're not trash talking Israel openly or attacking them for the obvious reason that they don't have the power for it yet. Condemning them for not marching to Tel Aviv now is like condemning a prospective Chinese warlord in 1930 for not marching on the Japanese home islands. First, Syria's freedom fighters must liberate Israel's version of Manchuko: the Kurd/SDF regions.
It's this battle that will show their mettle, if Syria has a future or not.
Almost half way through this decade and things feel much more hectic than the last decade.
We are in a decade of chaos and strife. It will possible be topped off by a major global war; either at the end of this decade or the beginning of the next one. A war that will reset the international order.
We are in a decade of chaos and strife. It will possible be topped off by a major global war; either at the end of this decade or the beginning of the next one. A war that will reset the international order.
It's worth it to deny France and UK access to cheap resources. It will strain their economy even more.
may comes sooner than you think
Wounded ISIS jihadist were getting treatment in Israeli hospitals. Not even palestinians working in Israel are afforded that.
There is a reason why no gulf or turkish tied groups havent really touched Israel of it's interests for decades