Assad has left Syria to request exile in Moscow

[Gabriel_Bell]

After 13 years of Civil War, the Russians and Hezbollah have cut off aid to Assad, and he has fled Damascus.
Will Syrians be better off now?

 

[Stalin]

as usual, the marxists have the best perspective

"Assad’s collapse could not have occurred without the complicity of factions of the Syrian, Iranian and Russian regimes. On Sunday morning, HTS leaders announced they were in discussion with Syrian Prime Minister Mohamed al-Jalali. On Telegram, they instructed their troops that “public institutions [should] stay under the supervision of the former prime minister until they are formally handed over.” Jalali, for his part, declared he is “ready for cooperation” with the new authorities.

Yesterday, the Russian government announced that, after talks with the “rebel” factions, Assad had ordered his troops not to fight the HTS-led offensive. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated: “As a result of negotiations between Bashar al-Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to leave the presidential post and left the country, giving instructions to transfer power peacefully.” It added that “the Russian Federation is in contact with all groups of the Syrian opposition.”

HTS and its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, a former al-Qaeda asset who had ties to Islamic State, have become the darlings of Western media outlets virtually overnight. Even though HTS was designated a foreign terrorist organisation by Washington and Golani was the subject of a $10 million bounty in 2018, he has received overwhelmingly favourable coverage in the US and European media. Perhaps giving away more than it intended, CNN observed in an article based on an “exclusive interview” with Golani on December 5 that he “exuded confidence” and sought to “project modernity” during a meeting “which took place in broad daylight and with little security.”

The HTS-led forces’ pro-imperialist character was underscored soon after they seized Damascus. Fighters ransacked the Iranian embassy, destroying pictures of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qasem Soleimani, assassinated at Baghdad’s international airport by the Trump administration in January 2020, and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, by the genocidal Zionist regime in September 2024. International media outlets were all conveniently on hand to capture these events.

By acquiescing to a handover of Syria to an al-Qaeda-linked militia, Assad and his allies in Moscow and Tehran are falling in line with longstanding foreign policy objectives of Washington and its NATO allies. Particularly since Israel began its US-backed genocide of the Palestinians in October 2023, the Zionist regime has waged a low-level war on Syria with US-supplied bombs and missiles. Al Jazeera reported that Israel Defence Forces (IDF) warplanes have struck Syrian military sites three times a week on average over the past 14 months.

Syrian government collapses after Bashar Al-Assad flees to Russia

The collapse of the Assad regime virtually overnight could not have occurred without the agreement of factions of the Syrian, Iranian and Russian regimes.

www.wsws.org

comrade stalin
damascus

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

I don't see where the Russian government can be described as Marxist. Russia is not a Communist nation, it is an oligarchy or a kleptocracy, ruled by Putin. Putin seems to have reached the view that supporting Assad would require more troops and funds than Russia wants to spend to keep him in power, so they told him that his time was over, and ordered him to leave Syria.

 

[Stalin]

I don't see where the Russian government can be described as Marxist. Russia is not a Communist nation, it is an oligarchy or a kleptocracy, ruled by Putin. Putin seems to have reached the view that supporting Assad would require more troops and funds than Russia wants to spend to keep him in power, so they told him that his time was over, and ordered him to leave Syria.

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the article is not russian

comrade stalin
gaza

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

It is pretty clear that Russia is in a worse position in Syria now than previously. It is likely that the US, NATO, Israel, Russia, the Saudis, Qataris and others are all plotting to cause Syris to favor what they think their interests are.