but assad didn't budge. he didn't flee into exile in iran like many had predicted. instead, he apparently spent most of his time conferring with his generals, giving patriotic speeches, and furiously working on diplomatic alliances with potential sources of outside help. the overt russian intervention in september 2015 was the product of over a year of careful negotiations.

but even before then, assad had managed to keep his iranian and hezbollah allies on-board long enough to prevent them from cutting their losses and causing a general collapse of the syrian government.

will hollywood or the western media ever tell his remarkable story in an honest manner?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34598771)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldHgag2sRM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600165)

this is such a stupid argument, could be used on anyone who spends money on anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34602619)

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2017/10/syria-war-russia-dominates-astana-talks-171031162925260.html

I would also add that Russian T-90 tanks flying "Hezbollah flags" entered Iraq today for the first time.

We also bought all of Iraq's pipelines this week.

We also inked $30 billion in deals with Iran this week. Russia is now the dominant power in the region.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34598898)

Putin owns Assad and Syria now. He can change the leadership whenever he wants.

The big winners out of the Syria/Iraq instability have been Iran, Russia and Israel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600126)

Not fleeing took balls though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34598905)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_July_2012_Damascus_bombing

there were plots and rumored coups against him all the time. there was always a fair chance that he'd wake up one night with a bag over his head and his own people selling him to jihadis to be burned alive on video. but he didn't budge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34598944)

well no duh there's a causal link there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34599129)

ppl are often made by circumstance, lol life is a fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34599119)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600100)

At least we're sort of nice to el-Sisi in Egypt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600112)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600133)

u can be sure they practice domestically, htfh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600629)

I literally had a taxi driver try to scam me out of hundreds of dollars as soon as I crossed the border at the Gulf of Aqaba. Left me stranded in some backwards shithole town called Ma'an where people asked me my religion before deciding not to help me bc I wasn't Muslim. Also on the way out the border guards wanted extra bribes from me bc I wasn't Muslim (they couldn't tell bc I'm brown).

Fuck that Islamic shithole, I'd nuke it from orbit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600215)

So you're basing your impressions on a flying visit from Eilat to see Petra? They probably thought you were some sort of brown Israeli.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600235)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600262)

Just from today. The 6 cruise missiles going off was 180 as fuck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3784696&forum_id=2#34600715)