People used to say "Can't Mossad the Assad"
Assad fled Syria, and anti-Assad haters are calling it a win for their side
Larry Johnson is aware of the Syria situation:
The US and the UK, in my view, dispatched Ukrainian officers to Turkey and Syria to prep and assist the terrorist group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in carrying out an offensive to take control of northern Syria.
If you are following the Telegram channels commenting on Syria, there is an air of panic and despair. While I do not doubt that HTS has made some significant gains, let me remind you that this is a full-blown Western-directed intelligence and military operation. As such, there is an enormous information operation being unleashed. I have not forgotten the “information” that saturated Western media outlets back in 2013 and 2014. There were multiple reports over a period of a few weeks that Assad was going to capitulate and flee Syria. It was bullshit. I was reading the intel at the time and the Defense Intelligence Agency, then under the direction of Michael Flynn, was telling a very different story. Kudos to Mike for not playing politics, despite enormous pressure from the Obama Administration chiefs to paint a different picture.
So, take the social media posts with a grain of salt. Russia and Iran are showing no signs of surrendering and walking away from Syria.
https://sonar21.com/us-bows-to-putins-warning-and-some-cautions-about-syria/
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Moon of Alabama’s comments suggest this was a CIA-run counter-revolution:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/syria-falls.html
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Pepe Escobar wrote:
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/the-syria-riddle-how-it-may-turn-into-the-first-brics-war/
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It remains to be seen how Syria will shake out.