Bashar Al-Assad meets Putin at the Kremlin

[AbdiWahab252]

He snuck in and out. Putin is not happy with Asad. He wants to preserve the state with a proRussian leader even if it's not Asad. Asad has not been towing the Russian line, undermining efforts to make deals with opposition figures Moscow has wooed back by arresting them. Iran is also unhappy with how Asad has squandered their aid. It's just time before they toss him to the side

[FAH1223]

He snuck in and out. Putin is not happy with Asad. He wants to preserve the state with a proRussian leader even if it's not Asad. Asad has not been towing the Russian line, undermining efforts to make deals with opposition figures Moscow has wooed back by arresting them. Iran is also unhappy with how Asad has squandered their aid. It's just time before they toss him to the side

[AbdiWahab252]

The presenter is a real tool. He reminds me of SomalianBoqor.

[gurey25]

peter lavell can be a bit of a ceeb ..

but the Russian and Iranian game plan is a future without Assad.
Parts of the Regime will continue in a unity government, or a regional government.
and they are willing for real opposition to join, even alqaeda or other successfull rebel groups.

Daesh is an alien entity and when the bombing campaign ends it will disintegrate , retreat into Iraq or get swallowed up by other groups.

The problem for other groups is that the Russians want to bomb them now so as to weaken them,
you want to negotiate with a weaker person not an equal, right now they are too powerfull.

Russia is going to win because it has a realistic plan for the future, clear goals and obejectives.
It will either get a friendly government of national unity in all of syria, or it will have a friendly secular state in northern syria containing latakia and tartus that is a breakaway state, like abkhazia in georgia.

Either way they are achievable goals .

The US has no clear goals,it is only reacting due to pressure/direction from isreal, and Saudia.

For Isreal a disintegrated afghanistan/lybia/somalia like Syria is perfect because they can expand into the hawaran region next to the golan,
where there is a large Druze population that can be assimilated, and hawaran is said to have large deposits of oil/gas and is a rich agricultural region.
They can also freely wipe out hezbollah and advance upto the litani in lebanon, another rich well watered agricultural area.

easy pickings for isreal.

After decades of disorder and somalia like conditions, the whole syria will become a collection of dozens of small isreali controlled bantustans.
with minimal isreali army presence , just the occasional special forces raid, and drones to keep the peace, and controll the savages.

[FAH1223]

peter lavell can be a bit of a ceeb ..

but the Russian and Iranian game plan is a future without Assad.
Parts of the Regime will continue in a unity government, or a regional government.
and they are willing for real opposition to join, even alqaeda or other successfull rebel groups.

Daesh is an alien entity and when the bombing campaign ends it will disintegrate , retreat into Iraq or get swallowed up by other groups.

The problem for other groups is that the Russians want to bomb them now so as to weaken them,
you want to negotiate with a weaker person not an equal, right now they are too powerfull.

Russia is going to win because it has a realistic plan for the future, clear goals and obejectives.
It will either get a friendly government of national unity in all of syria, or it will have a friendly secular state in northern syria containing latakia and tartus that is a breakaway state, like abkhazia in georgia.

Either way they are achievable goals .

The US has no clear goals,it is only reacting due to pressure/direction from isreal, and Saudia.

For Isreal a disintegrated afghanistan/lybia/somalia like Syria is perfect because they can expand into the hawaran region next to the golan,
where there is a large Druze population that can be assimilated, and hawaran is said to have large deposits of oil/gas and is a rich agricultural region.
They can also freely wipe out hezbollah and advance upto the litani in lebanon, another rich well watered agricultural area.

easy pickings for isreal.

After decades of disorder and somalia like conditions, the whole syria will become a collection of dozens of small isreali controlled bantustans.
with minimal isreali army presence , just the occasional special forces raid, and drones to keep the peace, and controll the savages.

That makes sense. Israel is definitely lacking agricultural land and mainland fresh water areas.

I agree with AW, that Putin is expecting Assad to finally implement a transition after this campaign.