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Russian soldier showed how entire companies of Syrians threw down their weapons and ran

https://www.bitchute.com/video/smwp4JP8PZ2C

Theodora Fletcher
@TheoFletcher01
Reports from Russian sources:

>Assad is retiring completely from politics with his family
>He is going to resume his career in ophthalmology (eye doctor) setting up an international specialized field hospital in Russia, Abkhazia and Dubai along with doing charity work

God bless Bashar ♥



Assads personal photoalbum was find. Look how cruel he was...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1866019705007271967

Syria's Fall: In-Depth Analysis

Simplicius
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/syr ... h-analysis
Dec 09, 2024
Sic transit gloria mundi
Syria has fallen, and history will be strewn with an endless banquet of takes and interpretations as to what happened, how, and why. Here I offer one humble middle approach to piece it together, supported by facts and some deductive reasoning, rather than emotional gut reactions.
What do we know so far?
Firstly, there are now indications ‘rebels’ informed Turkey of their intentions to launch an offensive on Aleppo six months ago, according to Reuters:

The armed Syrian opposition, which took power in Damascus the day before, informed the Turkish side six months ago of its intention to launch a large-scale offensive against the official Syrian authorities, Reuters reported.
“Syrian opposition groups... informed Turkey about plans for a major offensive about six months ago and believed that they had received its tacit approval,” the news agency reported.
At the same time, the United States said that Washington was not aware of Ankara’s “tacit approval” of the armed Syrian opposition’s plans to attack the Aleppo province in the north of the Arab Republic.

I mostly agree with Scott Ritter’s take here that the operation was never meant to topple all of Syria and that this became a kind of emergent improvisation after all the hyenas of the region saw how weak Syrian armed forces were in responding to the initial foray. There is ample ancillary evidence to suggest the assault was initially meant to be limited—but of course grew in scope as Israel, US, Turkey, and others began to see opportunity and activated their various sleeper cells, as well as began to secretly court Syrian generals and other influential army figures to essentially surrender or betray Assad in one way or another.
Here’s one analyst’s take on how the militants did not expect such success. It mentions that the Russian army reportedly offered to upgrade and train the SAA much more directly several years ago, but was for some reason refused.
We now have a better understanding of why, precisely, events unfolded, and how Syria had become so weak, directly from first hand sources. Though he’s the least trustworthy character, Erdogan explained that he had offered Assad a deal—in his words—to bring back some Syrian refugees as well as for Assad to influence Kurds on the Turkish border to pull back. One suspects there’s much more to the ‘deal’ than Erdogan reveals, but other figures have somewhat corroborated the above.
Here, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi openly reveals that Assad had become too inflexible in being open to the Astana process ‘dialogues’ with the opposition:

First he mentions that Assad himself was shocked at his own army’s collapse. The FM implies Assad had poor working knowledge of the internal situation of his own military, which we’ll get to in a moment.
Then he lays it out:

“It must be said that the path did not progress as well as expected, and Mr. Assad’s government in this regard was somewhat inflexible and slow in making progress.”

But now the Syrian ambassador to Russia himself, Bashar al-Jafaari, went even further in condemning the decadence under Assad:



https://www.rt.com/news/609081-syrian-a ... mns-assad/

The government’s rapid fall is evidence of its unpopularity among the people and army, the diplomat has said.

Granted, he could just be trying to curry favor with the new ‘administration’ to jockey for a job, but his words seem to echo other officials in close contact with Assad’s government:

Commenting on the developments, al-Jafaari condemned the former president and suggested that his ousting was long overdue.
“The collapse of the corrupt system in a matter of days is evidence of its unpopularity and lack of support both in society and among the army and the armed forces,” the diplomat told RT.
He added that the “shameful and humiliating escape of the head of this system under the cover of night, without any sense of national responsibility to the country, confirms the need for changes that have occurred.”
Al-Jafaari further hailed the regime change, stating that Syria has “finally become a true homeland for all Syrians” and called on its people to unite and cooperate in restoring security.

WaPo likewise cites a Syrian diplomat in claims that Assad refused a last minute deal to cut ties with Iran, which I mentioned last time:

On the eve of his overthrow, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refused a deal with the United States on Damascus ceasing logistical assistance to Tehran and providing its territory for the delivery of aid from Iran to the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah in exchange for a gradual lifting of American sanctions, The Washington Post (WP) reported, citing former Syrian diplomat Bassam Barabandi.
More fatal for Assad, according to WP, was his refusal to establish relations with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who offered to normalize relations with Damascus in exchange for containing Kurdish formations and the return of at least some of the Syrian refugees to the territory of the Arab Republic.

There are other perspectives, of course. For instance, here an Iranian hardliner claims that the ‘progressive’ new president Masoud Pezeshkian simply did not allow Iranian forces to fight in Syria:

Iranian hardliner and expert on Syrian affairs Sohail Karimi claims that the reformist government of Pezeshkian does not allow Iranian troops to fight in Syria:
"We are not allowed to fight in Syria.
We gave 6,000 martyrs in Syria to fight these terrorists, their death should not be in vain…"

And here former deputy of the Iranian Quds forces says Turks and other Arab countries deceived Tehran, which was reportedly ‘worried about movement in Idlib two months ago’.

"We asked the Turks and some Arab countries and received assurances that there would be no movement. Hakan Fidan in particular told us this. I wish we had not been deceived by them and had taken precautions and reinforced our forces in Syria."


Many people obviously feared that Pezeshkian would be some kind of Western-liberal plant, but I don’t think it’s so black and white. A combination of the above factors was clearly responsible for what happened and how rather than direct and pre-planned betrayal on the part of the Iranians or Russians.
There are many videos of SAA soldiers condemning the army, Assad, etc., during the events of the past few days. Here one angry SAA soldier shouts that Hezbollah Radwan special forces sold them out, Iran, Russia, and Assad himself all ‘sold them out’:



I’ve now seen statements that Hamas supports the revolution and welcomes the new Syrian government, so you can add them to the list too.
In reality, people in their confusion have blamed everyone. Many for instance blame Russia, and perhaps Iran, for not allowing Syria to “go all the way” in 2018-2020, to finish off Idlib, which would have prevented all the foregoing events. The same goes for locking Syria into the Astana and Sochi agreements.
The problem is, such people have short memories and do not realize the situation was not so simple. Though Syria churned through the jihadists’ strongholds in the 2018-2020 campaign, the fact of the matter is Idlib was deemed strictly off limits by both Turkey and the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes
The problem is, an angered Turkey then launched an offensive into Idlib which utilized Bayraktar drones in devastating swaths of Syrian armor and personnel. Depending on who you believe, the SAA was effectively “crippled” by the attacks, having lost nearly 100 pieces of heavy armor, artillery, air defense, and hundreds of men or more. As you can see, ideations about conquering Idlib at the time aren’t as realistic as some believe. The US and Turkey were both prepared to go to war to save their Al-Qaeda stronghold, and Russia astutely saw fit to compromise and “quit while they were ahead”, since the SAA had just recaptured huge amounts of land up to the Idlib deconfliction zone; and so Russia and Turkey formalized another addendum to the Astana process to deconflict at that time.
Think about it from Russia’s perspective, western Syria was mostly recaptured save for a tiny strip in the north—was WWIII really worth trying to recapture one last town whose residents hated Assad to begin with? It wasn’t Russia’s fault that after that time—as we now know—Syria began a slow painful decline, owing to the US’ economic terror and strangulation of its economy.
Just check around April 2020 on the map below and ask yourself if the risk was worth it for that final sliver of seemingly inconsequential land in the north?

dna replication έγραψε: 09 Δεκ 2024, 22:40 Theodora Fletcher
@TheoFletcher01
Reports from Russian sources:

>Assad is retiring completely from politics with his family
>He is going to resume his career in ophthalmology (eye doctor) setting up an international specialized field hospital in Russia, Abkhazia and Dubai along with doing charity work

God bless Bashar ♥



Assads personal photoalbum was find. Look how cruel he was...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1866019705007271967

Τουλάχιστον πήρε μια χώρα έναν μετανάστη από την Συρία με εξειδίκευση

Reluctant Ruler



This brings us to the next thing which needs to be said.
I consider Assad a kind of tragic figure because it appears now in retrospect that while he was a good man and kind leader, he may not have been an effective leader. The reality is that he was never meant to become ruler. He was a simple doctor-in-training while his older, firmer brother Bassel al-Assad, elder son of Hafez, was meant to inherit the throne until he tragically died in a car accident in 1994:

Bashar al-Assad was not initially destined to become the president of Syria. His older brother, Basil al-Assad, was being groomed for this role by their father, Hafez al-Assad. Basil was seen as the preferred successor and had been prepared for leadership from a young age. However, his life took a tragic turn when he died in a car accident in 1994, which drastically altered the succession plan.
Following Basil's death, Bashar, who was studying ophthalmology in London at the time, was recalled to Syria. He had to abandon his medical career and quickly adapt to a political and military role. Hafez al-Assad then began to prepare Bashar for leadership by enrolling him in military training and positioning him within the government. Despite his lack of political experience, Bashar eventually succeeded his father as president after Hafez's death in 2000.

Just look at the eldest son’s training—that’s who was meant to lead Syria:

Trained in parachuting, he was commissioned in the Special Forces and later switched to the armoured corps after training in the Soviet military academies. He rapidly rose through the ranks, becoming a major and then commander of a brigade in the Republican Guard.

It can be inferred that Bashar’s lack of training for the role, and his incompatible disposition likely led to his not being a good military commander-in-chief. By all accounts, Assad appeared aloof when it came to the running of his army, leaving everything to his generals which—according to some—resulted in the slow degradation and corruption of many high level military officials. We can never know quite for certain how much blame rests with him, but these are educated deductions based on both sides’ accounts.
The soft-spoken, mild-mannered, intelligent ruler may not have had the required gravitas to properly thrive in a barbarous region overrun with vicious enemies on all sides. This, along with the many native traitors now condemning him, has led some to express the sentiment that: “Syria did not deserve Assad.” In some ways it feels like no country deserves his kind of thoughtful, temperate leader with such an exemplary and graceful first wife and family.




As an anecdotal aside, Assad’s emails were once hacked by rebels at the start of the war, and virtually the only ‘incriminating’ material they could find were love notes to his wife; e.g. from CNN:

“If we are strong together, we will overcome this together … I love you …” al-Assad wrote his wife the day the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of a spike in violence.
Days later, the 46-year-old ophthalmologist-turned-autocrat doodled an elaborate sketch of a large pink and red heart on an iPad and e-mailed it to his first lady.
Asma, who boasts in one e-mail to a friend that she is the “REAL dictator” in her relationship, reciprocates the affection, once writing her husband a short poem.
“Sometimes at night, when I look to the sky, I start thinking of you and ask myself, why? Why do I love you? I think and smile, because I know the list could run on for miles.”



Now in the overthrow’s aftermath rebels have ransacked Assad’s residence and found his private family album, again revealing nothing more than a wholesome family man starkly contrasted with the picture the cretinous West has painted of him:

To come full circle and underscore the above characterization of a reluctant leader, rumors claim Assad—who has now been confirmed by Russian foreign ministry as being safe in Moscow—intends to go back to private life and open up some kind of ophthalmology clinic in Russia, if one can believe it:




A different variation of the rumor:

Assad is retiring completely from politics with his family
>He is going to resume his career in ophthalmology (eye doctor) setting up an international specialized field hospital in Russia, Abkhazia and Dubai along with doing charity work

I’m skeptical, as it seems far too early for him to have made such decisions, so take it with a grain of salt—but at the same time, I see no other realistic option for him. Perhaps should Syria become federalized or outright balkanized he could return as governor of a rump Latakia:




Or then again…maybe not.

The Great Leader έγραψε: 10 Δεκ 2024, 17:30

dna replication έγραψε: 09 Δεκ 2024, 22:40 Theodora Fletcher
@TheoFletcher01
Reports from Russian sources:

>Assad is retiring completely from politics with his family
>He is going to resume his career in ophthalmology (eye doctor) setting up an international specialized field hospital in Russia, Abkhazia and Dubai along with doing charity work

God bless Bashar ♥



Assads personal photoalbum was find. Look how cruel he was...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1866019705007271967

Τουλάχιστον πήρε μια χώρα έναν μετανάστη από την Συρία με εξειδίκευση

Και Brain gain ο μεγας σκακιστης.

The Great Leader έγραψε: 10 Δεκ 2024, 17:30
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και σοβαρό επενδυτή

dna replication έγραψε: 10 Δεκ 2024, 17:31 Reluctant Ruler



This brings us to the next thing which needs to be said.
I consider Assad a kind of tragic figure because it appears now in retrospect that while he was a good man and kind leader, he may not have been an effective leader. The reality is that he was never meant to become ruler. He was a simple doctor-in-training while his older, firmer brother Bassel al-Assad, elder son of Hafez, was meant to inherit the throne until he tragically died in a car accident in 1994:

Bashar al-Assad was not initially destined to become the president of Syria. His older brother, Basil al-Assad, was being groomed for this role by their father, Hafez al-Assad. Basil was seen as the preferred successor and had been prepared for leadership from a young age. However, his life took a tragic turn when he died in a car accident in 1994, which drastically altered the succession plan.
Following Basil's death, Bashar, who was studying ophthalmology in London at the time, was recalled to Syria. He had to abandon his medical career and quickly adapt to a political and military role. Hafez al-Assad then began to prepare Bashar for leadership by enrolling him in military training and positioning him within the government. Despite his lack of political experience, Bashar eventually succeeded his father as president after Hafez's death in 2000.

Just look at the eldest son’s training—that’s who was meant to lead Syria:

Trained in parachuting, he was commissioned in the Special Forces and later switched to the armoured corps after training in the Soviet military academies. He rapidly rose through the ranks, becoming a major and then commander of a brigade in the Republican Guard.

It can be inferred that Bashar’s lack of training for the role, and his incompatible disposition likely led to his not being a good military commander-in-chief. By all accounts, Assad appeared aloof when it came to the running of his army, leaving everything to his generals which—according to some—resulted in the slow degradation and corruption of many high level military officials. We can never know quite for certain how much blame rests with him, but these are educated deductions based on both sides’ accounts.
The soft-spoken, mild-mannered, intelligent ruler may not have had the required gravitas to properly thrive in a barbarous region overrun with vicious enemies on all sides. This, along with the many native traitors now condemning him, has led some to express the sentiment that: “Syria did not deserve Assad.” In some ways it feels like no country deserves his kind of thoughtful, temperate leader with such an exemplary and graceful first wife and family.




As an anecdotal aside, Assad’s emails were once hacked by rebels at the start of the war, and virtually the only ‘incriminating’ material they could find were love notes to his wife; e.g. from CNN:

“If we are strong together, we will overcome this together … I love you …” al-Assad wrote his wife the day the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of a spike in violence.
Days later, the 46-year-old ophthalmologist-turned-autocrat doodled an elaborate sketch of a large pink and red heart on an iPad and e-mailed it to his first lady.
Asma, who boasts in one e-mail to a friend that she is the “REAL dictator” in her relationship, reciprocates the affection, once writing her husband a short poem.
“Sometimes at night, when I look to the sky, I start thinking of you and ask myself, why? Why do I love you? I think and smile, because I know the list could run on for miles.”



Now in the overthrow’s aftermath rebels have ransacked Assad’s residence and found his private family album, again revealing nothing more than a wholesome family man starkly contrasted with the picture the cretinous West has painted of him:

To come full circle and underscore the above characterization of a reluctant leader, rumors claim Assad—who has now been confirmed by Russian foreign ministry as being safe in Moscow—intends to go back to private life and open up some kind of ophthalmology clinic in Russia, if one can believe it:




A different variation of the rumor:

Assad is retiring completely from politics with his family
>He is going to resume his career in ophthalmology (eye doctor) setting up an international specialized field hospital in Russia, Abkhazia and Dubai along with doing charity work

I’m skeptical, as it seems far too early for him to have made such decisions, so take it with a grain of salt—but at the same time, I see no other realistic option for him. Perhaps should Syria become federalized or outright balkanized he could return as governor of a rump Latakia:




Or then again…maybe not.

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Οργισμένος έγραψε: 10 Δεκ 2024, 17:35 Και Brain gain ο μεγας σκακιστης.

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