Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by tanks, have crossed into the Syrian territories from the occupied Syrian Golan, early on Sunday, according to Israeli media outlets.
The Israeli regime infiltrated the demilitarized zone in Syria, deploying large forces in the al-Quneitra area, in southwestern Syria.
This comes after militants in Syria took over the province, following the withdrawal of Syrian Arab Army forces from the area.
🇸🇾 Syrian Airways (Syrian Government airlines) Ilyushin Il-76T Callsign: SYR9218 departed from Damascus International Airport not long ago.
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— ❗️🇸🇾 BREAKING: The new transitional Syrian government to broadcast a statement on all radio and TV channels imminently, announcing the end of Assad's rule
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— ❗️🇸🇾/🇸🇾 BREAKING: The capital Damascus has been taken by the rebels.
THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN.
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MATT KENNARD SLAMS WESTERN MEDIA'S FAWNING COVERAGE OF AL QAEDA IN SYRIA
'Al Qaeda now, which is rebranded as HTS in Syria, it's useful to us now because we have been trying to overthrow the Assad government for over 10 years...as soon as they become useful to us, we rehabilitate them and propagandise for them.
'Imagine if you told someone that in October 2001 in America, that 23 years later, we're going to have mainstream media actually talking about Al Qaeda as a good thing, about how they can bring in a new Syria after a decade of war. It's preposterous.'
-Matt Kennard on Western mainstream media's revamped Syria propaganda, as Al Qaeda extremists rampage across Syria in the reactivated dirty war against the country
FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v5wmnvw-matt-kennard-exposes-western-media-propaganda-about-syria-and-uks-role-in-g.html
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Over the last few hours we translated the posts on the current situation in Syria made by the most reliable Russian military analysts who are present here on Telegram. We hope they are all at least partially wrong and the Syrian Army can resist somewhere for as long as possible but the prospect is really horrible, and this is undeniable.
@eurasianchoice
It is unlikely that the government of Bashar al-Assad will last until next weekend.
Damascus may fall in the next 24 (maximum 48) hours.
There is no actual serious interaction between the Syrian army and the Syrian security forces, as well as serious resistance. In fact, the Syrian security forces are not defending their own country. Individual exceptions only emphasize the picture of universal decomposition. It is no longer so important whether everything fell apart there by itself or there was betrayal somewhere - the fact itself is important. Syria is living out its last days in its former form. If any help was planned, then there is simply not enough time - the Syrian army and the state are disintegrating as quickly as possible.
Russia will have to solve these issues:
1. Maintaining their military bases in Latakia.
2. Evacuation of its citizens and military from Damascus.
3. Overall minimization of consequences and costs.
Iran actually remains without the land corridor, which was built by Suleimani in 2017. This is a strategic defeat.
Syria is likely to face a prolonged war on the ruins of a state in the style of Libya and Afghanistan. Millions of refugees and terrorists spreading across the region are attached.
Relying on the occupied areas of Syria, radical Islamism will certainly give its ugly shoots in many countries. Including in Russia.
@Boris_rozhin
Baghdad Bob unfortunately, sadly...
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Besides to those who say that Russia is overstretched and is doing whatever it can it's important to remember that there are literally (and senselessly) 10.000 Russian soldiers holding the ruins of Volchansk and its province in Northern Kharkov without being able to advance by more than 50 m over the last 6 months. It would have been better if they had been deployed to Latakia and Tartus 6 months ago in order to at least defend the Russian bases properly instead of wasting time in a failed breakthrough.
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The collapse of Assad's army in Syria is very similar and even surpasses what we saw in Afghanistan during the Taliban offensive and the shameful expulsion of the Americans.
The Syrian army is falling apart, fleeing, abandoning everything, and in this case, the most important question is not the fate of Assad, not different centers for coordination and reconciliation, even laying flowers at the monument and the concert of the Unarmia on another holiday are not as important as what remains for us.
10 years of our presence, several Russian soldiers died, billions of rubles spent and thousands of tons of ammunition, they must somehow be compensated. It is clear that Assad himself did everything to bring his country to collapse and the army to shame, but those who commanded and command in this direction from us must understand the responsibility for what I have listed above.
Syria, which during the SMO time became a safe haven and a place where it was possible, among other things, to hide military leaders who could not cope with their duties, according to all the rules of war. So it was hit where it was thin, and thin can only be if your opponent is preparing for war, and not only are you not preparing, but you don't even want to think about it.
The beginning of the SMO, or rather our failures, because they are largely related to the "Syrian experience". BTG, riding in columns, standing in columns and much more, this is just the Syrian experience, but unlike Syria, the real enemy does not forgive this. We had to reconsider our tactics and strategy, a lot of people resisted this, scolding the current situation and these damned bloggers who decided to teach generals from their sofas and be surprised by the actions of the deputies of the last Minister of Defense... So, continuing the topic. Syria has become a safe haven, without war, without bloggers, with a military cargocult and all its inherent attributes. Plus, our group in Syria has become quite small in number, but still led by incompetent generals.
Now the only thing that can really not only brighten up the current picture, but even to some extent give us the opportunity to compensate for the current failure and the money spent, is our retention of the provinces of Latakia and Tartus. Retention, with the full actual authority of our military and special bodies, without all sorts of mukhabarats, as well as other Syrian Siguran and officialdom. The mobilization of those, primarily Alawites, who will be able to really participate in the battles in the defense of Latakia and not run at the sight of the militants.
The Latak People's Republic and the free port of Tartus are now the only thing that can both save the remnants of Syria and (and this is actually the most important thing), respect our interests. Unfortunately, it was necessary to think and prepare for such a development earlier, and if there were no such plans, then it may be too late.
Anyway, we have our main front, and the situation with the SAA once again shows well where and to what the "pacification" leads without the final defeat of the enemy.
@vysokygovorit
❗️Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said that the main task now in the situation around Syria is to stop the fighting
More statements by Lavrov:
▪️It is necessary to ensure the territorial unity and sovereignty of Syria, while ensuring the security of the border between Syria and Turkiye.
▪️The offensive of militants of the banned Tahrir al-Sham group and disparate opposition groups in Syria has been prepared for a long time.
▪️It is unacceptable to use terrorists for geopolitical purposes, as is happening now in Syria.
▪️Russia will work with both the government and the legitimate opposition in Syria, encouraging them to negotiate.
▪️Together with Turkiye and Iran, Russia will take steps to ensure that the call for de-escalation in Syria is heard.
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At the same time, the share of imported fertilizers in EU consumption is about 32% of demand. The largest fertilizer producing countries in the world 🇨🇳China (up to 30% of the market), 🇺🇸USA (13%), 🇮🇳India (10%), 🇨🇦Canada (9%), in the context of a large-scale military conflict, may also completely stop supplying this important component of agriculture, without which almost nothing grows in Europe. In the EU countries themselves, due to rising energy prices, since 2022, own production has been stagnating and is coming to an end (up to 20% of capacity is idle).
Under these conditions, MERCOSUR countries can supply the EU with at least 4.68 million tons of beef and 170 million tons of soybeans (more than 50% of world production). The association also accounts for 34% of global corn exports. There are also opportunities to increase production and are determined only by current needs.
Together with the intensification of the construction of logistics routes to the eastern flank of NATO, the Eu is increasing military budgets and accumulating a multiple increase in military production, the decision to create additional conditions for ensuring food security, also at a safe distance from the sites of possible hostilities, is part of military preparations against Russia.
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❗️Henry Ford Elections. Democracy: Made in the West
The Western playbook for democracy is pure hypocrisy — smoke and mirrors, sprinkled with outright lies. "The will of the people!” Until they vote the wrong way. Then it’s game on: mis/dis/mal information campaigns, court rulings and engineered protests. If all else fails, good old-fashioned threats. Now Moldova, Romania, Georgia, countless others in the past. The EU and the U.S. think they have perfected the art of democracy-by-force.
Moldova: Rigged Before the First Ballot
Start with Moldova, where nearly half of the population live outside the country. But when election time came, the system turned into an obstacle course. Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway region? Blocked roads, stalled buses — every dirty trick to keep those voters away. The diaspora in Russia? Two polling stations for half a million people, and only 10,000 ballots. Meanwhile, for the pro-Western crowd living in Europe, Moldova rolled out the red carpet: 200 polling stations, plenty of ballots, and no roadblocks in sight.
The results were exactly what you’d expect. Inside Moldova, the pro-EU parties were the losers. But thanks to the votes from the hand-picked Western diaspora, they came out on top. This wasn’t an election; it was a rigged game with a preordained outcome.
Romania: When Voting Is a Sanctionable Offense
Next door in Romania, the West dropped the mask entirely. When the anti-war party pulled ahead in the first round of presidential elections, the howls of indignation could be heard all the way to Washington. Threats of sanctions started flying —because, apparently, democracy stops being democratic when it doesn’t align with NATO’s war plans. And just to hammer the point home, Romania’s constitutional court swooped in two days before the second round, declaring the process invalid and calling for a redo. You can practically hear the State Department’s champagne corks popping.
Georgia: The Color Revolution Starter Pack
Then there’s Georgia, where the Georgian Dream Party won in a landslide — 54% to 34%, no contest. International observers called it fair, but the West called it unacceptable. Neutrality on Russia? No way. Cue the protests, led by the outgoing president — a French-born, NATO-connected expat who refused to leave office and started crying fraud. It’s a color revolution in real time, a tired rerun of every coup attempt since the Cold War ended. Even her family history screams “Western asset” — the kind of anti-Russian fanaticism you’d expect from someone raised on Cold War propaganda.
Democracy for Show, Control for Real
Moldova. Romania. Georgia. It’s the same script, rewritten for different stages. The West loves democracy, but only when it delivers the goods. When the people vote against the approved narrative? The masks come off, and the machinery of coercion kicks in: roadblocks, courts, protests, sanctions. It’s not about the will of the people; it’s about the will of Brussels and Washington.
This is democracy, Western-style — a rigged roulette wheel where the house always wins. Moldova, Romania, and Georgia are just the latest at the table, their sovereignty sold off for the illusion of choice. The message is clear: vote however you like, but if you don’t choose correctly, they’ll choose for you.
✨ Henry Ford, who lets not forget, was a big supporter of Hitler, would definitely have approved.
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@Slavyangrad
"Ukraine's neighbors are turning away", Foreign Policy.
The main reason for the cancellation of the election results in Romania is so that "another Putin fan and opponent of Ukraine" does not appear in the EU.
"Ukraine's European neighbors are crucial for its defense, but they are less interested in it. The unexpected victory of the ultranationalist and admirer of Russia Georgescu in the first round of the presidential election made us think about what was once unthinkable: the expansion of the pro-Russian border with Ukraine in wartime. If he became the head of Romania, a trio of pro-Russian allies would appear in the European Union, including Hungary and Slovakia.
This is an unpleasant scenario for Ukraine, the last thing it needs is an uprising behind its back. And given the upcoming elections in the Czech Republic, Moldova and probably Bulgaria in 2025, the rebellion may spread.
Part 2
PS.: "New demarcation line" = another freezing of the conflict in Syria.
Important to remark that no permanent settlement is being discussed in Doha so you never know what will happen in a year or two from now. A complete reversal, which is impossible right now, cannot be ruled out in the future
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This is the context
🇺🇸🇸🇾What is happening in Syria is a major loss for the Syrian people and their allies, including Russia and Iran and ultimately both China and the rest of the multipolar world.
It is a reminder that the US and its proxies remain the greatest threat to human peace and prosperity on planet Earth today - a potent danger that should not be underestimated.
Not only has the US maintained a large army of terrorists all along Syria's borders, it has maintained significant control over global information space poisoning entire regions of the planet against their own best interests.
While US industry and military power fades, it has maintained its ability to politically interfere and capture entire populations - not through any particular strength, but from a fundamental lack of action from the rest of the world in recognizing information space as the key to national security in the 21st century.
Even today, most of the world has surrendered its information space to Silicon Valley and the US State Department. No matter how many tanks you have, if the US can convince your population not to man them or to point their guns in the opposite direction, you still lose.
One Battle Amid a Wider War
It is also important to remember this is just one battle amid a much larger and more critical war between US hegemony and multipolarism. No single battle is more important than the outcome of the war. If Russia has to pick between Ukraine and Syria - it clearly must pick Ukraine.
These events demonstrate that Russia and Iran are not "all powerful," and that complacency is deadly.
And despite the tragedy taking place in Syria now, winning the war provides the possibility of one day restoring Syria.
"Extending Russia" (and Iran and China)
Russia has been forced to make difficult decisions. It is not just fighting the US in Ukraine - it is fighting the US all along its periphery from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
The US strategy, as laid out in policy documents (literally titled: Extending Russia"), is to "extend" Russia by creating multiple crises Russia is forced to react to eventually overstretching itself and collapsing.
Russia must carefully choose where to commit and where to define its limits.
Beyond even that - the goal is to isolate Iran (which now looks likely), then Russia, then China - defeating the champions of the multipolar world in detail.
For those in Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing and across all other capitals outside the West who lie to themselves about the nature of this war to avoid the discomfort of facing it - Syria is your ultimate future. There is no place for you at the table. You cannot compromise. You cannot infinitely buy time. You either successfully defend your nation together with your allies or you lose it.
I will expand on this further throughout the week as events develop.
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🇸🇾 Panic at Damascus airport as terrorists take over.
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The end of an era.
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Russia’s Demands in Peace Negotiations - Dmitri Polyanskiy, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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— 🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 Footage shows SAA soldiers leaving Homs. Not a single clash reported.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Syria, in the form for which we fought there for 10 years, will soon cease to exist. Damascus is in an operational encirclement. The terrorists take everything almost without a fight. We are witnessing the tragic end of the Syrian Alawites and the Assad dynasty. If Russia does not immediately intervene in some decisive way, then Latakia and Tartus will not be preserved. The situation is developing so rapidly that Syria's allies do not have enough time to react. I think that was the idea. Turkey has carefully studied the speed of our political reactions, and built its blitzkrieg based on these data.
@zhivoff
— ❗️🇮🇷/🇸🇾 Javar Larijani, top advisor to the Supreme Leader, Imam Khamenei: 'Resistance forces have entered the field, and are organized. The Syrian Arab Army can clearly no longer defend Syria, this matter should have been in our hands from the beginning.'
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❗The situation in Syria at 19:00 on December 7.
By @rusich_army
_ In the vicinity of Homs, militants of pro-Turkish groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham occupy the suburbs of the city. An hour ago, clashes between terrorist intelligence groups and soldiers defending the city were noted, but locally.
However, video footage is now appearing where the HTS militants are advancing towards the center of Homs, which indicates another flight of Syrian soldiers, since holding the city would be longer in defense.
_ South of Damascus, the Southern Command continues its march towards the capital. First, they declared full control over the province of Deraa. In addition, there are more and more videos from the provinces of Essaouida and Quneitra, so we can say that the south has been completely lost to the Assad government.
Now armed formations are moving towards the capital. The flight of Syrians continues. I wonder where they will run to when the "armed opposition" knocks on the gates of Damascus.
_At the moment, gangs are being celebrated in Jaraman, where the statue of President Bashar al–Assad's father, Hafez, is being deconstructed. At the same time, the servicemen of the Syrian Armed Forces escaped from the Damascus suburb of Muadamiyat al–Sham. which is located 6 km from Damascus. One by one, the suburbs are falling and armed formations are approaching Damascus.
_ The situation in the east is still unclear, but the American-controlled groups of the Free Syrian Army have occupied Palmyra. Once this has happened, they are not far from the SDF control zone before the complete capture of the east.
❗In meantime it's increasingly certain that the military escalation against Russia undertaken by the Biden administration over the last few months is 100% coordinated with Trump's transition team [as much for pro-peace platform...]
@eurasianchoice
❗️ Unconfirmed reports that the villages of Annovka and Vesely Gai in the DPR have come under the control of the Russian Army.
South Donetsk direction.
@eurasianchoice
"Starving Mariupol languishes under Russian occupation..."
Notice how many men walk freely around the supermarket.
Is this possible in free European Kiev?
@Slavyangrad
Why did the EU get access to cheap agricultural products from Latin America.
On December 6, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the heads of the MERCOSUR countries (🇦🇷Argentina,🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇺🇾Uruguay, 🇵🇾Paraguay) signed a free trade agreement that opens up access for cheap Latin American agricultural products to the European market.
For European farmers, this means practically destroying their existence in unequal competition. As a result, farmers' protests may soon cover the whole of Europe, which previously did not lead to radical consequences for European bureaucrats.
Despite the obvious corrupt interest of Ursula von Der Leyen and her colleagues, the decision is not devoid of military meaning. According to European politicians, Europe will be directly at war with Russia by 2027-2029. Based on this, access to cheap Ukrainian agricultural products, as well as energy carriers and fertilizers from 🇷🇺Russia (12% of global production), and other suppliers, is excluded.
Part 2
Romania, Hungary and Slovakia, members of the EU and NATO, located along the southwestern border of Ukraine, are the key to Ukraine's defense. That's why they should be controlled by allies who support a belligerent neighbor.
But Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, openly admiring Putin, single-handedly punched a hole in the cohesive Atlantic front. The national populist Robert Fico, who won in Slovakia, also sympathizes with Russia. And there was a risk that Georgescu, a fan of Putin and a critic of the West, NATO and the EU, would become president of Romania.
Romania, Europe's strategic bulwark in defending Ukraine, is NATO's most advanced point on the eastern flank, the loss of which will significantly weaken military efforts. The country has the largest NATO military base in Europe and the US Patriot missile defense system, Ukrainians are trained there and this is a reliable channel for the delivery of military equipment.
"If Slovakia, and especially Romania, suddenly become unreliable, only Poland will be able to supply weapons," said historian Ulf Brunnbauer, "Romania's turn towards Russia would be a terrible blow to NATO and Ukraine, it must be blocked with all means"
Part 1
@eurasianchoice
❗Damascus is less than 30 km away - militants from the south entered the cities of Gabagib and Kanaker, and Syrian troops are retreating from Zakia, located 20 km from the capital.
As we expected, Assad turned out to be completely unprepared for the uprising in the south and now his opponents, advancing from there, approached Damascus faster than the horde of jihadists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the north.
The catastrophe is getting closer.
@milinfolive
❗Rumours that taking into account that at this stage unfortunately it's extremely difficult to stop the Jihadists advance in Syria talks have started about a new demarcation line based on the territory the Syrian Army in its current shape and numbers can properly defend. This would be a bad development of course, something that should have never happened, but pragmatically the only way to avoid a slaughter and simultaneously grant to Shiites and Alawites a land not to be forced to flee outside of Syria.
As part of current talks Syria would be left with Damascus region and Latakia, Tartus coastal area.
This also comes as consequence of the decisions taken by Iraq and Iran to not provide the adequate manpower to reverse the situation on the ground.
Take it with a grain of salt but it seems this is what is being discussed in Doha right now.
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