Click to see the full-size image
Russia is reportedly nearing a deal with Syria to maintain a reduced military presence in the country after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Bloomberg reported on February 17, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The agreement would allow Russia to retain some personnel and equipment in the country, the unnamed sources said without elaborating.
One source indicated that Russia aims to preserve its existing bases on the Syrian coast, the naval base in Tartus port and the air base in Khmeimim airport.
According to the sources, Russia could assist in combating ISIS terrorists active in eastern Syria. One source noted that Russia’s continued military presence might also serve as a counterbalance to Turkey’s expanding influence in the country.
Syria’s new Defense Minister Major General Murhaf Abu Qasra stated earlier this month that Syria is open to allowing Russia to maintain its naval and air bases on the coast, provided that any agreement with Moscow serves the country’s national interests.
Last week, Putin assured Syria’s transnational president Ahmad al-Sharaa of Russia’s readiness to provide aid and facilitate essential trade to help stabilize Syria’s devastated economy. Syria’s central bank received a fresh shipment of local currency from Russia just a few days later.
It’s worth noting that Russia maintained a very large military presence in Syria during the era of Assad, with dozens of posts in the west, north and east of the country to observe multiple de-escalation and ceasefire agreements as well as other posts in the south to help monitor the situation along the front with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Additional posts were situated in the center of the country to lead operations against ISIS.
With no fighting in most of Syria today, the need for such a large deployment is no longer there, thus Bloomberg’s report about a reduced Russian military presence in the country is in line with what Moscow may be hoping for now.
Overall, the relations between Russia and Syria’s new rulers appear to be moving forward. Pressure from sides in the West, mainly the European Union, appears to be fading on the backdrop of Russian-American talks on the conflict in Ukraine.
In addition, some within the EU are reportedly worried that pushing Russia out of Syria could force it to relocate to Libya, thus bringing it closer to the union’s southern shores.
MORE ON THE TOPIC:
i make many deals w normal degenerate hillbillies for sodomy
you project your russian prison culture onto others far too often.
here’s a video revealing russian soldiers tormenting one of their own:
https : // t . me / tradrussia / 1038
amerikunty incarcerate more per capita than any nation in history w recent exceptions el salvador—-were you pimpled out by leery when you were in folsom prison moron hillbilly?
projection is the unconscious displacement of one’s own feelings or impulses onto others.
https://t.me/tradrussia/1038
amerikunt hillbilly nazi saxon more desperate fake
retaining the bases is the main priority of russia what syria should be worrying about is israeli expansionism .
well the al qaeda boss masquerading as the leader doesn’t seem to have a problem with it, problem with the arab world there have always been too many who surrendered before a shot was fired.
https: //t.me/tradrussia/1038
the russian airbase in syria was attacked with drones today. suspect the ukrop special forces in syria to be responsible
could be, but interesting how the kiew morons waste theyr troops and money all around, while they colapse steady in donbas. morons doing moronic things.
if the ukrainians cared about their peoples lives they would just pull out of lnr, dnr, and kursk and propose a cease fire.
amerikunt nazi hillbilly will tantrums at south front panicked by its latent homosexuality—inferior farcical hillbillies humiliated by russian success
our national character is insecure–we are known for unreflective projection
expected that we inferior species consume 80+% all prescribed psyche meds on earth annually—
russia could have and should have stopped so much damage and killing israel did to syria over the years, what a goddamn shame they didnt
the russians don’t have great ability to project conventional force, they don’t seven aircraft battle carrier groups.
they also don’t have any pragmatic reason to get involved in arab/persan/jew tribal issues as you may think.
the sad part is syria never needed to fall in the first place, there were several mistakes by the russians and syrians that led to it.
the biggest mistake was russia supporting the alwaite ethnic group that represented only 3-4% of the population russias moslems are mainly shia, they should try to get along with them just as well as the shite.
russia supported an inclusive and tolerant government where the country’s many diverse communities and faiths could live in peace and security. it is syria’s enemies in the region and wider world who sought to incite and foment sectarian conflict that was alien to syrian sociery. they did this to serve zionist and neocon interests who are the source of most of the conflict in the world.
it looks like superpowers and terrorists go hand-in-hand?
not even a month ago a major italian newspaper (la stampa) titled an article “la fine della russia in siria” (the end of russia in syria) showing an aerial picture of a few russian ships approaching tartus to load equipment. maybe the journalist wasn’t well informed. the presence has been reduced, sure, but i wouldn’t wonder to find the equipment that departed from syria in some african country by now. niger? burkina?
russia should just pull out of those bases and have done with it to guard against blackmail from erdogan and his pet head chopper. they were never very important. for most of its existence, tartus was just a warehouse at the end of a jetty with a handful of personnel. erdogan realises he has bitten off more than he can chew in syria and wants russia to help clear up the mess. jewlani or whatever he calls himself now will be totally incapable of forming any kind of basic administration.
turkey will try to wipe out the kurds and come into conflict with the jewsa and zios. there will probably soon be an iraq style insurgency in the country against jewlani, and maybe a separate one against the zio occupation. there will be an independent shia fiefdom on the west coast. the qatar pipeline is just a pipedream. it ain’t gonna happen. qatar will just export lng. a pipeline is no longer viable. syria is far too unstable.
any pipeline would have to go through shady wahabia, syria and turkey. they would all want their cut and qatar could be blackmailed by any/all of them. it makes far more sense for qatar just to export lng. gas pipelines are okay if they are controlled by the supplier and go direct to the customer, like the siberian pipelines to china. otherwise they aren’t worth the trouble. think of nordstream. russia is better off out of this can of worms.
this is scary, but a piece on the chess board is worth something, if only hope. there is still the one country in the region that is involved in creating great human suffering. and blame the victims as always.