In the morning, a call from a Syrian friend: that’s it, Damascus has fallen. What Marat warned about has happened. They didn’t listen. Now wait for them to come to you. Not as guests — as hosts.
The worst thing is the inability to help. The inability to do anything. I turned on the Internet.
Al Jazeera reported the seizure of a television complex in Damascus. The fate of the city is predetermined: it is in the hands of the radical Muslim terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (banned in the Russian Federation).
Bashar al-Assad, who received 95% of the votes in May 2021, with whose name they went to their deaths, whose portrait was on the butt of every soldier’s submachine gun, who was a symbol of the unity of the people even when desperate and fierce battles were taking place on the outskirts of the capital, a few kilometers from the presidential residence, is cursed by the people today.
For the weakness of power. For handing it over to corrupt and greedy officials. For pandering to the comprador bourgeoisie. For the cruelty of the mukhabarat. For betraying the people’s faith in the future. For those five years of peace given to him by Russia, which plunged the people into total poverty and allowed corruption to soar to unprecedented heights. For allowing a new terrorist army to be created in Idlib, while the government and business robbed the country.
Suheil’s “tiger” brigade is the only combat-ready one, was disbanded, some were killed, some were imprisoned, some were dissolved in other units. Doesn’t it remind you of something?
Now Suheil has been brought back, but the brigade is no more. But there was no one more loyal to Assad than General Suheil, but Assad betrayed him too.
There are mass executions. Civilians are being shot, women and children are being raped, soldiers are being executed. A bloody bacchanalia.