The fascist propaganda back in the Old Countwee is absolutely out of control

HTS currently negotiating the surrender of Damascus with regime leaders.

It’s over.

It’s over.

Israeli intelligence reporting that, as far as they know, Assad is still in Damascus.

À la lanterne!

I read Kash Patel’s enemies list. It wasn’t nearly as many pages as liberals claimed.

Reports that Assad has fled Damascus.

One kick, and whole rotten edifice of the Ba’athist regime comes crumbling down.

Staggering, even for those of us who knew the regime relied on Hezbollah legionnaires, Iranian sepoys, and Russian bombers.

Syrian Girl retweets “If Syria falls. Every Palestinian and Lebanese life has died in vain.

Lotta folks going 100% mask off about how they view Palestinian lives and freedom exclusively as a means to achieve some broader goal

Some of it isn’t even Cold War, it’s just romantic, Theory™-addled anachronism.

The Israel of 2020 is not the Israel of 1960 or 1980.

And that’s without getting into the confusion over settler-colonialism and unhelpful comparisons to Algeria or South Africa.

I was glumly resigned to the fact that Harris’s main foreign policy advisor, Phil Gordon, thinks Obama never should have threatened Assad’s rule with his red line over WMDs, and advocated the recent (shameful) push to normalize relations between Assad and his neighbors.

Good riddance.

It was *THE* primary reason Obama left Assad alone; he didn’t want to upset their Iranian masters with whom he was desperate to cut a deal.

lol

Clintonite liberal internationalism had plenty of failings, but it was leagues ahead of the listless and idiotic stewardship of liberal institutionalism pursued by the Obama and Biden administrations.

The past couple of days/weeks/months/years/administrations makes it painfully and abundantly clear that the Democrats need to fumigate and drive all of the Obamanoids and Bidenites out of their foreign policy establishment IMMEDIATELY.

It’s depressingly hard to find a popular democratic movement or uprising against authoritarianism that the Western Left has supported in the past twenty years.

They have all but abandoned internationalism in favor of solipsistic isolationism or reactionary contra-imperialism.

It will be remembered that the Western Left abandoned the Syrian Revolution almost from the start (just as they did with the Arab Revolutions writ large), and the only element they deemed worthy of support was a post-Stalinist Kurdish statelet protected by the US Air Force.

At this rate, Jolani will be celebrating Christmas in Damascus.

Word is that the SDF has seized al-Jarrah Air Base from the Assad regime.

Sounds like the SDF-Ba’athist collab may finally, finally be over.

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HTS-SDF condominium for a free Syrian Federal Republic would probably be the best (and, thus, most unlikely) outcome.

Staving off Turkish terror of an independent Kurdistan (especially one under PKK rule) is as key to any post-war Syria as it was for post-war Iraq.

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one of my underlying principles with AI is that if it was actually good they wouldn't need to lie so much to sell it to us.

At this rate, he’ll be the next Fareed Zakaria; Master of the Softball and Relentless Seeker of the Middle Ground.

Dar’aa has never been fully pacified, and a low-level insurgency (especially targeting former rebels “reconciled” to the regime) has been smoldering since the Ba’athists returned.

Restive Suwayda has avoided much beyond protests, and Assad can’t afford to war on the Druze.

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The SDF is preoccupied with Turkey and its proxies’ next moves.

The SAA is disintegrating.

Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah are all much weaker and too distracted to rescue Assad’s regime as they did in the 2010s.

Victory may not be around the corner, but “catastrophe” seems far off.

Say HTS waaay over-extends and is forced to pull back to Aleppo.

Whatever local force gives HTS such trouble that it withdraws won’t have the regime’s arsenal behind it. And Assad’s reavers are unlikely to be welcomed back. So, at worst, a patchwork of local militias.

A far cry from “catastrophe.”

Concerns that the rapidity of the Assadist disintegration might be a “catastrophic success” for HTS, especially regarding territorial overextension, are understandable.

But what’s the vehicle for “catastrophe?” Unlike Hamas on 10/7, there is no IDF waiting to deliver a counterpunch.

Fridman is a tedious and fraudulent brown-nosing twit, but hey, he’s got bigger balls than Roid Rage Rogaine

I just want people to know that my friends in Idlib literally told me this offensive was going to happen, it was telegraphed weeks if not months ahead of time.

The Regime lines still collapsed the moment they came into contact with the offensive.

It’s worth noting that the Trump-dominated Republican Party has NEVER participated in the peaceful transfer of power in a situation where they lost. The last Republican administration to eagerly go along with the peaceful transfer of power was the GWB administration in 2009.