Wikipedia has already put an end date to Assad’s presidency. Dunno if those edits will be reversed.
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Nice to see Russia take a loss here. Expect more radical terrorist groups to enter the country, however.
With all the Syrians ripping down reminders of their heritage, you’d think Republicans will spend the next several days and at least be out on all the Sunday morning shows denouncing this as cancel culture.
Reports now that Assad boarded a plane to leave, and the plane has crashed.
Wow, i believe you!!
Well, if he had made it to Russia, I suspect he would have eventually perished by falling out a basement window.
I wish he could have held on 3½ more weeks. I was going to put his name in my 2025 death pool entry.
I wonder how long the headless government can keep basic services functioning. Gonna be a disaster like Yemen.
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In Russia, eye surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Russian president need new eye. I do operation. But mistake! Russian president die!
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Trump warned on the social media platform Truth Social: “Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”
He took former President Obama to task for failing to enforce his “red line” in 2013 to launch military strikes against Assad after the Syrian strongman executed a shocking mass chemical weapons strike on civilians, in which more than 1,400 people were killed.
Trump says the US should not get involved and then blames Obama for not getting involved in 2013.
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I agree with not getting involved
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Can’t see why the US should get involved.
It will be interesting to see how the Kurds will be treated under the new regime.
This has been a long bloody spiral into chaos. These guys are going to have to rebuild everything. They will also have the African problem. Every African country that fought for freedom suffered from bad leadership. These from the bush to office governments will need to learn to govern. Some fail like what happend in Somalia and DRC resulting in warlords. They will also struggle with getting legitimacy so things like trade may not be as easy as they think. It’s going to be round two without guns for them.
The first test will be how they deal with Assad’s army and other government officials that were the enemy. They need some of them. In some African countries you can’t get things like city plans so you can’t fix things like utilities easily. When the Portuguese left Mozambique there are stories of sabotage things like putting cement in toilets.
Also Assad may have left with a lot of the access to the current funds available.
I bet what’s left of the govt forces is gonna join ISIS just like how the ex-Saddam soldiers did.
De-Baathification 2.0. Literally.
Assad and family in Moscow per Russian media
I don’t know, the rebel commanders seem pretty aware of this. They have warned the rebels not to harm the soldiers and not to touch government buildings. I’m assuming they want to establish a new gov pretty quickly. There will be probably be an attempt by ISIS or another group to take over the country in the short term.
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Israel seizes land in Golan Heights.
Israel also bombed weapons depots in Damascus area due to fears over which groups might access them in the aftermath.
Assad granted asylum in Moscow
The sad part of all this, of course, is that if Assad had gracefully stepped aside in 2011, when the pro-democracy demonstrations started in Syria, a half million deaths would have been avoided.
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