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Assad had protected the non-Islamic minorities in Syria. His was also the last secular state in the region.
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That is correct. Now they are going to establish a theocratic government like in Iran
Israel strikes suspected Syrian chemical weapons sites
A few hours after Assad was overthrown
From a terrorist group into a national liberator. Let’s see how long this honeymoon is going to last
What will happen to the Russian bases in Syria now?
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From RT
8 Dec, 2024 18:33Syrian militants pledge to protect Russian bases – TASS
The anti-government militants and jihadists who toppled President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria have guaranteed the security of Russia’s military bases and diplomatic outposts in the country, a Kremlin source has reportedly told the TASS news agency.
Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and US-armed Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants stormed Damascus on Saturday, as the Syrian Army stood down and Assad left the country for asylum in Russia. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a former al-Qaeda commander, proclaimed victory in a televised statement on Sunday, declaring that “the future is ours.”
Speaking to Russia’s TASS news agency later on Sunday, an unnamed Kremlin source said that Russian officials “are in contact with representatives of the armed Syrian opposition.”
These representatives “have guaranteed the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic institutions on Syrian territory,” the source said, adding that “we hope for the continuation of political dialogue in the name of the interests of the Syrian people and the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Syria.”
Russia intervened in the Syrian Civil War in 2015, helping Assad wrest back control of his country from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), and a panoply of foreign-sponsored militias and jihadist groups. This time around, Moscow did not commit forces to hold back the HTS and FSA assault, with the Russian Foreign Ministry stating that Assad had decided to relinquish power peacefully following back-channel talks with several opposition groups. ”Russia did not participate in these negotiations,” the ministry noted.
Russia began construction of the Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia shortly after it came to Assad’s aid in 2015. The facility has since been used by the Russian Air Force to launch attacks on IS and other terrorist groups in Syria, and to transport supplies and weapons into the country.
Khmeimim Air Base is located around 60km from the Russian naval facility at Tartus, which was built by the Soviet Union in 1971. Russia signed a 50-year lease on the facility in 2017, allowing Moscow full sovereignty over the base and giving the Russian Navy permission to station up to 11 vessels there.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that both facilities had been placed on high alert during the insurgents’ advance on Damascus, but “there is currently no serious threat to their security.”
The left-wingers are saying that the police and the military are not members of the working, and they can not take class consciousness, but I have seen militaries and polices general taking class consciousness and taking side with the peoples and fighting along with them. Our case includes all members of the working class must become socialists
What will happen to the Russian bases in Syria now?
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In the world of capitalist alliances and negotiation anything can happen including negotiating with the Russians, and the Russians were there in order to protect their naval feet routes to the Mediterranean sea and they will continue protecting their naval fleet
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-syrias-assad-has-left-country-given-orders-peaceful-power-handover-2024-12-08/
https://theconversation.com/russia-and-the-taliban-heres-why-putin-wants-to-get-closer-to-afghanistans-current-rulers-227287That is the social character of the United States of Guns, there are more guns than citizens, schools, hospital and libraries, and in the poor neighborhoods there is a church in every corners and many pastors carry guns.
In others countries if peoples had guns they will overthrow the government,
and the USA did not allow citizens of others nation to have gunsThe second amendment is a racist law because Indians and blacks were not allowed to have guns, they would have rebelled against the state
Donald Trump has said that as soon as he takes office on January 20 2025 he is going to bring hell to the Middle East, if hostages are not released.
In 1965 Lyndon B Johson sent 50,000 marines to the Caribbeans to pick up several USA tourists that were drinking rum and coke at the beach, and the rescue operation left more than 10,000 people dead, one dictator and the complete destructions of all workers unions and progressive organizations and journalists, and they were looking for communists and the communists were invisibles and did not have a communist party, despite all their military hardware they had to negotiate with the rebels that were backed by the workers
The thing is that the time of WW2, and post war when the USA was able to kick ass all around the world does not exist any more, and several powerful military powers have also emerged and there is a world realignment of forces that might respond back with the same military power
The USA has been defeated several times after WW2, and its world hegemony is declining, and it is not longer an industrial might as during WW2, the real industrial might is China. War is not only terrorism with a bigger budget but it also require continuous industrial production.
Several countries in Latin America have rejected his geopolitical and hegemonic plans including the so called war against drugs, and others have said that they are going to accelerate and increase their commercial cooperations with China, and the Chinese capitalists are constructing a mega port in Peru
The promises made on the political campaign of ending the wars are not going to be fulfilled including Ukraine, and the Russians are the one that are dominating the situation, it is not going to be a 24 hours negotiations coming out from the mouth of a demagogue
Workers have been fooled again, and workers are the real losers
There are rumors that Elon Musk wants to acquire a radio station known as MSNBC, but I think that his main target for federal cut is going to be NASA which his space competitor and I do not think that Boeing is going to accept it, there are going to be some fights among the capitalist class
This is going to be similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement, trying to motivate capitalism to create reforms to benefits the vast majority of the peoples, another movement for reformism. The problem are not the CEO, the problem is capitalism
bibliophile ? I am one of those F pervert too because I love books and libraries. I grew up in a small town and the best center of entertainment was the town library . My father was always reading books and he was not an intellectual but he was a walking library, China books and periodical was throwing thousands of books and I took all of them and I gave all them to several Leninists organizations . In the USA they want to burn books what for ? Nobody is reading anything. They are reading the collected works of Donald Trump
I do not think that any member of this forum is rejecting printed books. I have two rooms with printed books and some of them were sent to a book binding company for hard cover
There were bookstores all over, Buenos Aires is one of the few cities that has many bookstores, most bookstores were closed due to high cost of the rents and high prices of the books, only Barnes and Noble survived and Amazon.
My first Alma-mater was surrounded by bookstores and all of them were closed, and now it is surrounded with night clubs and bars
I have my own personal library that I have been collecting for several years and I have a 12 inches iPad and a laptop with hundred of digital books too.
I have more printed books than digital, but the reality is that we can not live in the past anymore and printed books are becoming very expensive including the socialist literature.
I paid $225.00 for the 52 volume of Marx and Engels, and $125.00 for the 42 volumes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Enver Hoxha, collected works, and now the price is over $3,000.00 for the work of Marx and Engels. and they have copyright, and digital are free, The MIA removed them from the internet,
Legal books like a hornbook and a casebook the price was $35.00 and now the price is $325.00, a book on Robins Pathology the price is $250.00, and a book on Harrison internal medicine is $450.00 and they are digitally free in some websites .
The University of Buenos Aires is selling teachers lectures because the books are very expensive and students can not buy them, many libraries have computers with digitally textbooks because it is cheaper for them and cheaper for the students. I go to the library almost every day and I take my own printed books
But what is a “Marxist-leaning” person?
The same thing as left leaning person which is frequently used in the USA and nobody knows the meaning, and they call marxist anyone that is opposing Trump including Kamala Harris who knows shit about Karl Mar and has never read anything about Marx or Engels
https://www.leftvoice.org/there-are-five-million-ways-to-kill-a-ceo-but-ending-for-profit-healthcare-requires-more/
There Are Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, But Ending For-Profit Healthcare Requires MoreAll of social media is talking about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, and much of the country seems to be in favor. But individual revenge will not be enough to end the injustice of this system.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 5, 2024
Early Wednesday morning, Brian Thompson was walking into a hotel in Manhattan, when a figure in a hoodie stepped out from behind a car and shot him in the back.
Since then, it feels like there is no other topic on social media. The entire country was talking about the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), the largest health insurance company in the United States, with a market valuation of almost half a trillion dollars.
Pretty much everyone was celebrating, and the jokes were endless. Would he be denied coverage if he was picked up by an out-of-network ambulance? Or get turned away from the hospital because the bullet wound was a pre-existing condition? Did his plan cover assassination? A vacuous statement from UHC has gotten over 33,000 laugh reacts!
There were also long, moving testimonies from clients of UnitedHealthcare about when they were denied medical care, sent enormous bills, or forced to spend months on the phone. And former call center employees recalled the ongoing pain of being forced to deny people’s claims.
The assassin fled the scene on a Citi Bike and disappeared into Central Park. Yet everyone assumed that the shooter was motivated by the near-universal hatred of these parasites. According to news reports, the bullet casings said “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” — seemingly a reference to a book called Delay, Deny, Defend about how and why insurance companies avoid paying insurance claims. The motive for the killing might be quite close to the popular imagination.
