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2024-12-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Damascus Falls. Assad regime is no more, Assad may be dead in plane crash while fleeing Homs
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Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11155 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 wow

Nov 29 Aleppo taken;
Dec 5 Hama taken;
Dec 6 Homs taken;
Dec 8 Damascus taken
Posted by Lord Garth 2024-12-08 00:08||   2024-12-08 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia shown as weak overseas, Iran lost the land bridge to supply Hezbollah. even though the rebels are most likely little better, a good day for Israel.

If Georgia throws off the Russian yoke, Russia will be little more than a joke and ripe for pushing to collapse.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-08 00:43||   2024-12-08 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3  Video link to hanging of an Assad relative?
Posted by 3dc 2024-12-08 00:51||   2024-12-08 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ By God, you're right. It has been 80 years since the last failed invasion of Russia.

The time is ripe for yet another failed attempt by the west to destroy Russia.

...

You don't seem to get it. Russia already has won its war. It's over now save for the treaty the signifies its end.
Posted by badanov 2024-12-08 00:54||   2024-12-08 00:54|| Front Page Top

#5 US Intelligence predicted the Assad regime fall months ago.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-08 01:08||   2024-12-08 01:08|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Out of Syria, on to Chuchonistan!
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-08 02:11||   2024-12-08 02:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Assad's 'slaughterhouse' prisons give up their secrets: Rebels advance on notorious 'industrial torture chamber'
Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-08 03:33||   2024-12-08 03:33|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by badanov 2024-12-08 07:47||   2024-12-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Iran's (Damascus) embassy was also stormed by Syrian rebels, Iran's English-language Press TV reported.

Karma, bitches
Posted by Frank G 2024-12-08 08:00||   2024-12-08 08:00|| Front Page Top

#10 re #8: Mark Toth - "News in #Syria happening faster than I can post.

If this was indeed #Assad’s plane, then there was no surviving whatever happened to it.

As the son & grandson of commercial & military aviators, I can assure you the #IL76 isn’t designed to drop 22K feet in 8 seconds"
Posted by Frank G 2024-12-08 08:28||   2024-12-08 08:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Could have been a decoy. Smart money would have been on an overland E&E days ago.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-08 08:34||   2024-12-08 08:34|| Front Page Top

#12 What happened to Steiner's counterattack?
Posted by Youngest Fossil on Rantburg 2024-12-08 10:05||   2024-12-08 10:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Assad is in Moscow after fleeing Syria and will be given aslyum, Russian state media reports
Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-08 13:04||   2024-12-08 13:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Perhaps a family member with a plane full of cash and documents too bulky for the land E&E? Linked video gives a pretty good insight into the level of storage for important things now obviously removed in some haste!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1865454268628484531
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-12-08 13:45||   2024-12-08 13:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Re #13: and if you can't trust Russian state media, who can you trust?
Posted by Rambler 2024-12-08 14:07||   2024-12-08 14:07|| Front Page Top

#16 Syria’s sudden uprising is a stark reminder of Obama’s failed foreign policy

From the link:
President-elect Donald Trump seems dead set to put Syria in the rearview mirror during his second term, referring to the country as the place “where former President Obama refused to honor his commitment of protecting the RED LINE IN THE SAND, and all hell broke out, with Russia stepping in.”

“There was never much of a benefit in Syria for Russia, other than to make Obama look really stupid,” Trump continued. “In any event, Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, and THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-12-08 16:26||   2024-12-08 16:26|| Front Page Top

#17  ^ I might add though, Obama never needed Syria or the Russians to make him look stupid. He does that quite well all by himself.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-12-08 16:27||   2024-12-08 16:27|| Front Page Top

#18 22K feet in 8 seconds

Quite a ROD there. You'd have to, um...

Four miles above Wile E. Coyote
A contrail crawled, peaceful and floaty.
Cue long johns (Johns Manville),
A rocket, and anvil
(not counting the weight of peyote).
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-12-08 17:04||   2024-12-08 17:04|| Front Page Top

#19 Turkey is the major backer of HTS. Turkey broke it, Turkey owns it.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-12-08 19:31||   2024-12-08 19:31|| Front Page Top

#20 I think it was Obama who broke it. Erdogan is attempting to pick up the pieces. Here's hoping he gets his fingers burned.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-12-08 20:10||   2024-12-08 20:10|| Front Page Top

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