Mentions (13)
"These Grayzone ghouls who give cover to Bashar al-Assad and the crimes against the Uyghurs."
"It is crazy how after 14 years of fighting Assad's reign and government will fall in a week."
"Assad landed in Moscow, according to Tass, and Putin gave him asylum. He can finally open that ophthalmology clinic he always talked to Asma about starting."
"Insane that he kept his grip on power forr more than a decade against ISIS and the whole west, and fell in less than a week when everything seemed relatively calm. We can't make who must go memes anymore."
"I thought Assad just needed time, but the cavalry of airforce and "elite" units just doesn't seem to be arriving for him. The Islamist rebels are running an insanely effective media operation that has even got a lot of western media duped"
"Louis Theroux documentary idea: Go to Moscow and get an eye exam from Bashar al-Asad. I wonder what frames he would recommend for Louis' face shape"
"He's barely arrived and Russian diplomats are already bad-mouthing him as a "cowardly loser" who ran away instead of staying to fight. The Syrian embassy there has swapped his flag with the rebel one and Putin is reportedly refusing to meet him. Russian media has stopped called his enemies "terroris"
"Russia is bogged down in Ukraine, Iran had its teeth broken by Israel, and now Assad stands alone as rebel factions burst into Aleppo. Is he in trouble this time?"
"I wish Hasbullah really was ruling Syria……. He's adorable"
"Over the next several years he becomes more and more embedded in the Assad regime, and the mom cuts off contact at some point. Once the Syrian civil war starts, he personally does a bunch of financial crimes to keep the money flowing so Assad can keep using chemical weapons on civilians."
"Been watching some videos out of Sednaya prison now that the rebels have cracked it open and it's obviously horrifying but what really strikes me is the arbitrary nature of a lot of the charges and how many people were languishing in prison for 40 years over attending a protest when they were 20."
"Maybe he's sitting in a briefing room right now. Folded into a chair like a brooding crane, all legs and angles beneath the stark fluorescent tubes. He scrolls through some personal favourites on his phone, with hands that tremble from lack of sleep or captagon. Merkel. Obama. There's a knock on the"
"Assad's dad took power a year after Gadaffi, 2 years after the Ba'ath party, with Saddam as second-in-command, took over Iraq for the final time. Yet another middle-eastern domino has fallen, crazy"