Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) visiting the historic Ummayad Mosque with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) in old Damascus, January 2020. Photo: AFP via SANA
Asia Times: Russia handcuffed to Syria’s failing state
Moscow continues to expend scarce capital on an Assad regime that has offered little economic or geopolitical returns
All the standard public relations ploys were in evidence for the recent meeting between Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian envoy Alexander Lavrentiev in Damascus. More than 230 officials from 30 federal executive bodies, five Russian regions, and the Russian defense ministry had trekked to the Syrian capital.
There were 15 agreements and memorandums on “key areas of Russian-Syrian cooperation.” The return of refugees from neighboring countries was said to be a “national priority.” The Assad regime and the Kremlin “affirmed the need for reconstruction and liquidation of terrorist hotbeds.”
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Update: Russia and Syria: bound together in a mission that is far from accomplished (Scott Lucas, The Conversation).
WNU Editor: In exchange for billions in aid and a permanent military commitment, Russia gets a naval and airforce base.
It is not worth it.
Syria is also a failed state that will need tens of billions to rebuild. Good luck on raising funds to finance that reconstruction project.
On top of everything else the war in Syria is still ongoing .... Assad regime, Russia continue to target Syria’s Idlib (Daily Sabah).
WNU will be shown to be correct. But it doesn't have to be. See the Japanese & German economic miracles. But Syria is ran by a dictatorship and Islam, so it is royally effed.
ReplyDeleteI don't see a problem here.
ReplyDelete^ Yes, let's hope for more Russian "problems" like this. One of them emanating from a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the near future.
ReplyDeleteSo much infrastructure has been destroyed, not to mention all the little everyday things that make "modern life" possible, it is doubtful Syria will find serious investors any time soon.
ReplyDeleteYep, at some point Syria will likely join Lebanon in the swirling toilet dance. A good time will be had by all.
ReplyDeleteI hate Assad and whole bunch of them Baathists, but ...
ReplyDeleteBut if they are not successful, Merkel will invite them all into Europe.
I would rather see a Syrian miracle and peace than to see them go through 10 or 20 more years of fighting.
2 😈 are better than one
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