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Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa supporting efforts to stabilize the situation in the country and saying Russia is ready to engage in “practical cooperation”, TASS reported on MAR.
Putin confirmed “Russia’s continuing readiness to develop practical cooperation with the Syrian leadership on the whole range of issues on the bilateral agenda in order to strengthen traditionally friendly Russian-Syrian relations,” the Russian state news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
Russia remains one of the main players in Syria. The country maintains a strong military presence with an air base near the town of Khmeimim and a naval base in Tartus port.
President Putin’s message to Sharaa came after the government unleashed a deadly crackdown on the coast, the heartland of the Alawite religious minority which former president Bashar al-Assad belongs to. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, over 1,500 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed by government forces during the crackdown.
Responding to the killings, Russia opened its Khmeimim Air Base for some eight thousand Alawites refugees and called on all “respected” leaders of the country to stop the bloodshed.
Later, Russia worked with the United States in the United Nations Security Council to issue a statement condemning the massacres and demanding the Syrian interim government to hold those responsible accountable.
The government has launched an investigation into the deadly events. However, it is yet to hold anyone accountable despite the fact that some of the perpetrators have been identified from footage documenting the killings.
With no trust in the government, Alawites taking refuge in Khmeimim have refused to leave the air base and demanded international protection.
One way for al-Sharaa to overcome this situation which threatens the legitimacy of his government, would be to allow Russia to play a direct role in guaranteeing the security on the coast.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov offered Syria security cooperation right after the fall of the Assad regime last December. However, there was no response from al-Sharaa back then. It won’t be a surprise if President Putin made a similar offer to the emerging leader in his latest message.
Allowing Russia, which enjoys close relations with the Alawite community, to play a role in guaranteeing the security on the coast could help ease tensions and preserve the unity of the country. Still, it is unclear if Sharaa, who appears to be determined to subdue the Alawites, would accept this.
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unbelievable what is putin thinking.
there’s no negotiating or cooperating with terrorists, or so i thought smh 🤦
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evil wears a uniform.
two russian animals posing with a child’s skull—this is who they are.
a death cult marching under the z, worshiping slaughter, parading their crimes like trophies. there’s only one cure for this.
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that’s why negotiating with russia is absolutely pointless.
alawites have been defeated because they didnt want to fight like kurds, libyans or palestinians…so putin just offer “the donkey load of gold” to another tribe.
after this. he needs to be removed from office now. he’s not only a liability but a traitor to all his armed forces that fought and died in aleppo to keep syria free. does not bode well for ukraine either…
stuff like this is why you cannot trust anything. countries are nothing but neo feudal corporatocracies used like chess pieces by the neo feudal banking overlords. globalists dont have ideologies only interests. their only flag is money and power. now i am glad that russian oligarchs were pushed out of the west and billions of dollars were confiscated
the mold was cast with the event(s) in lower manhattan and washington d.c. almost 2 1/2 decades ago. can anyone reasonably argue that had the un/unsc demanded an investigation of the evidence which was being removed by the most unusual partners that headed on a slow boat east that this world would be a different and better place today had the un security council demanded action within the first year that the u.$. refused to respond?
everything that g.h.w. bush declared about a nwo 12 years earlier came true! and mikhail gorbachev, boris yeltsin and vladimir putin just proves that point. what makes it far worse is that russia for the past 30 years keeps drawing the short straw and accommodates that abuse from it’s international partner(s) at it’s own citizens peril (increasingly so) willingly.
the skull and bones bush family had great impact when running the pirate ship . 911 and terrorist became mainstream terms .
but the the european peoples economy is needlessly crashing from the loss of cheap russian energy . trade is a benefit to all . the eu leadership only delivers self destructive policies to thier peoples . the illegal confiscation of russian money brought the birth of brics .
the oligarchs were not pushed out of the west they live in expensive parts of london and paris, they would be arrested if they returned to russia.
the long game is for stability . but i do not know what russian plan is other than survival . theatre for now .
russia is so fucking stupid, all of the respect and admiration the world has had for russia, when they prevented assad from being overthrown, has completely reversed, now no one respects putin! hello with stupid decisions like this you can argue that putin doesn’t even respect himself or his people!
russia is not stupid the government is just owned by jews and they serve the jewish interests above anything else. its just a different perspective and explains why they let syria fall into barbarism istead of helping the saa to hold power back in december
how to ensure israel’s security in any situation. pining to get back to jerusalem where he can bash his head against the wall of herod’s old fort, again. the agony and the ecstasy of it all. 👊
don’t worry, russia will go the way of yugoslavia. the priest promised me that russia would be completely destroyed and that europe would grind russia into dust and ashes. the end of russia is closer than anyone could have imagined.
tell me the account number so i can transfer €1,000.
a mocking bird repeats the same song . you must really like your cage .
yes their army will find their end on the hills of judea when jahweh destroy them. together with the army’s of iran and turkey they will be buried in hamona, near dhiban in jordan. it will be the end of the islam.
putin is also owned by the zionists just like trump, they probably have videos of him urinating on children so they can blackmail him to humiliate the russian people like this. putin is a neo-yeltsinist pig. he watched russians getting murdered in donbass for 8 years before he decided to do something about it when his own people demanded it. he will have no problem watching hts terrorist do their genocide in syria, just like he never had a problem with zionist aggression in the region.
hopefully, all this zionist evil filth is removed from the earth soon
russia has been through the zionist plans to destroy amd control them over hundreds of years . i am not a believer in your spam .
i wonder how many times trump was told to discuss the middle east situation in the putin phone call ? if i was russia i would not discusses israel related subjects at all . funny how when the us continuing resolution funding bill passed , the gaza / middle east war war rebooted . coincidence ?
now what happened to peace agreement which broker by putin and erdogan.big russian army has become small countries attacking and practicing zone under putin.
its all down to wanting to be “friends ” with your enemies something i cant accept as it abhors me .
if we’ve learned one thing from history: russia always stabs its “allies” in the back.
heheheh
its not russia or the russians who do this its the jews who control it who do it.
if this is true and i say if, it’s yet another mistake by putin like when he thought he could trust erdogan, they say julani is going to investigate the massacres, yeah right! thats like asking the ss to investigate auschwitz.
mistakes i think not. this prick has got his pontius pilate act down to a fine art. as long as it facilitates, and doesn’t jeopardize this israel in any way, then it’s a green light to any ‘initiative’
putin is a natural born dummy. only a idiot would have stepped into the nuland kiev trap.
putin is simply recognising reality. assads government collapsed due to its own failures and strategic errors, and the terrorists won. we don’t need to like it, but the russians need to move on and make the best of it. the alawites need to accept that their time of control is over and that the new boss won’t take kindly to rebellion. yeah it sux but thats the bottom line.
please tell me that shit is a lie
‘alawites taking refuge in khmeimim have refused to leave the air base and have demanded international protection’. the base commander has an issue on his hands but he hasn’t backed down in his responsibilities here so far. i wonder if pezeshkian will bring this issue up with the grand chess master when they meet. what a smoke and mirrors hootenanny that would be.