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Credit to the brilliant Bruce MacKinnon.
February 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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If Africa is done as a result of the loss of Syria, this would amount to the biggest geopolitical upset for Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At this point, the Russian presence in Syria is not just hanging by a thread, as Rybar claims—it is essentially eliminated. There will be no Russians in Syria, and subsequently none in Africa either. This is called checkmate. I agree with the rest of what was said.
December 8, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week.

A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM