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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
In light of Syria's fall the most stupid thing Russia can do is accept to enter any kind of negotiations with the West over Ukraine.
History has shown that the Western globalist elites, Trump is just another one of their puppets, don't respect any agreement they sign.
@eurasianchoice
‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 If Ukraine wants to end the war in 2025, it will probably have to sacrifice part of its territory - The Telegraph.
"Some [Ukrainians] oppose negotiations with Russia, while others would like to live in a "small Ukraine, but happier and safer,"" the newspaper reports.
There is little chance for Kiev to oust Russian troops, so talk of refusing to return territories by military means is "in the air." "These territories, it seems to me, have become so psychologically distant from us that they have become non-Ukrainian," the newspaper quotes the opinion of a resident of Lvov.
At the same time, the publication sees "advantages for everyone" in the forced territorial concessions of Ukraine.
The loss of pieces of the east and south would be bitter for Ukraine, but would ensure peace and lasting independence. Vladimir Putin will receive Ukrainian "neutrality", the actual conquest of the land bridge to Crimea and a "victory" that he can easily sell at home," the article says.
t.me/RVvoenkor
Some more hard truths re. Axis of Resistance:
_ No, Hezbollah did not win against Israel in southern Lebanon, Israeli losses have been minimal although not irrelevant, Hezbollah losses have been huge. The military operation in Syria was the only reason Isreal decided to withdraw, of course they knew in advance it was going to begin in few days, and they did the right thing basically.
2_ No, Iran did not do any significant damage to Israel over the last few months. If Israel reluctantly accepted a ceasefire in Gaza is only due to Gulf countries media + their intelligence apparatus in the West and blatant genocide which in internet era was becoming an undeniable fact.
@eurasianchoice
Latest updates from Syria.
By @Boris_rozhin
1. Syrian officials are negotiating with the militants to keep the life support systems of the population and the state apparatus functioning as part of the transfer of power. The formation of a new government in Syria is in full swing.
2. A large number of ISIS fighters were released from prisons. They celebrate there too.
3. The Iranian Embassy and Assad's presidential palace were looted.
4. The Russian Embassy and bases in Latakia have not been touched yet. It is important to remember that in Syria our troops were not only in Damascus or Latakia.
5. Israel has occupied part of the territory of Syria near the Golan Heights, the annexation of which is expected, taking advantage of the collapse of Syria.
6. Turkey continues to put pressure on the Kurds in northern Syria. The obvious goal is to capture Manbij.
Less than 6 hours after Assad is deposed, and Israel already occupies a part of Syria.
We knew this was coming.
🇺🇸🇸🇾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.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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.'
@Middle_East_Spectator
❗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
First time British mainstream media talk about "neutrality" for the Ukraine rather than "Ukraine's inevitable NATO accession".
/channel/EurasianChoice/45340
❗The fate of the Russian bases in Syria is unknown at this stage, talks underway.
50-50 situation.
If Russia will still manage to keep the bases it's going to be the only Syrian ally that does not lose everything in the country as consequence of Assad's removal.
@eurasianchoice
❗Reuters, citing two sources in the Syrian security forces, reports a "very high probability" that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad died in a plane crash near Homs last night. The plane, which took off from Damascus International Airport, is believed to have been shot down.
@eurasianchoice
Why people's view on the so-called multipolar China is completely different from the real China.
Here's a short list of facts that will dispel some myths:
1_ China's most important trading partners, and by far, are the US and the EU. The trade turnover with other BRICS nations (talking about core BRICS countries) pales in comparison.
2_ China has not been involved in a real conflict in the last 50 years, so all talks about Chinese army being powerful are exaggerated or simply not backed by facts, numbers don't make an army better than the others. As a proof it turned out that North Korean soldiers are badly trained and combat incapable despite being part of the 4th biggest army in the world so their eventual participation in the military operations in Kursk was indefinitely postponed to prolong their training.
3_ China did not participate to Syria's reconstruction not to anger the West, we can talk for how long we want about who's to blame for Syria's downfall but it's proven that regimes, even the ones that are really undemocratic, can last if there's economic prosperity in their countries, if there's no economic recovery, as in Syrian case, military victories like the one in 2020 are Pyrrhic, totally useless, ultimately a waste of men and money. Of course we can blame US/EU sanctions but if supposed Syrian allies are scared to do anything and as in China's case they fully abide by them it really makes no sense to divert attention from the fact multipolarity is just a work in progress.
4_ The West is carrying out all sort of provocations regarding Taiwan, China does not respond, the Philippines and Bangladesh returned under complete control of the West, China did nothing, it was unable or simply did nothing to counter the moves because you know... at least they can still do business with these two countries, doesn't matter if another 10 US bases appear on their soil. It's money that matter the most according to the Chinese "Communists".
@eurasianchoice
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.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
— ❗️🇸🇾 BREAKING: The new transitional Syrian government to broadcast a statement on all radio and TV channels imminently, announcing the end of Assad's rule
@Middle_East_Spectator
— ❗️🇸🇾/🇸🇾 BREAKING: The capital Damascus has been taken by the rebels.
THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN.
@Middle_East_Spectator
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
@MTodayNews
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...
/channel/intelslava/70763
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.
/channel/EurasianChoice/45315
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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