Syria's almost friend

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Was only a matter of time before elements of the syrian elite realized that the russian intervention wasn't about them, that their value between 1 and 10 is Ukraine. The chaos surrending Syria these days, where a wealthy businessman called Rami Makhlouf accused security forces of "inhuman treatment" after being arrested for tax evasion, shows that a powerful external destabilizing force is swaying the Assad's tenure. Reporting has been focused on who actually ordered this cleaning campaign, which points the finger to the London-educated Asma Al-Assad. I'll be honest: she's very cool and seems smart as well. Of course replacing the husband with the wife isn't a convincing political transition for the West and its lackeys but she would make a better job, judging from her rare appearancies. That his husband bought her a $30million painting as gift for her recovery from cancer is probably a fake but given that it was reported by an outlet owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, it was taken for convenience as true.
Making an extreme sum up of the war since 2015 (it's annoying to go before 2015, y'all know the «moderate rebels»): shoot down of the Su-24 by the turkish airforce; push back of ISIS located 60km off Damascus under the watch of the International Coalition; retake many territories; announce of partial disengagement; shoot down of the Il-20 instigated by the israeli airforce.. shoot down of the Il-20 instigated by the israeli airforce. We have it. I'm sure the Ministry Of Defense has drafted a revenge plan like it did in Idlib where 30 turkish soldiers were killed in a coming-from-anyone-except-the-syrian-airforce airstrike, the when is about political will.
How have the S-300s performed? Bad in terms of radar, according to one undisclosed syrian official. And let's not talk about outdated SA-6s. Was it said for spite? No because there's a technical reason: according to Wikileaks documents, in 2008 Russia exchanged with Israel the data link codes of Tor-M1s in return of  the data link codes of UAVs sold to Georgia. Yes, it was so insecure about its soviet era missile system that it had to resort to begging. And we are talking about a statelet. It was obvious Israel was trying to punish Russia for blocking the UN sanctions draft and saw Georgia as the perfect puppet. In turn the zionist statelet, which trains with Greece that has S-300s, knows about it life and times and this is why selling S-400s to Turkey is an enormous mistake. Who performed good are the chinese-made JY-27 and LLQ120 radars to which Israel had to use F-35s for countering.
The fundamental difference is that israelis are driving a wedge while chineses are simply promoting their products. Regardless the difference, russians risk to lose their only true ally in the Middle East. Who tells them that syrian soldiers might soon be equipped with belarusian missiles? They will go loco. Since the partial disengagement, did they clean the small pocket in the desert? Did they clean the oil-rich east? Did they clean Idlib? Did they clean rebel rebels in Daraa? Naaaaaah, they battled against Iran-backed militias for influence (and flew helicopters above u.s force). I believe syrians are tired to not be free even to choose who to shoot.
If the UAE is willing to pay $3billion (whatta coincidence – see the first tweet) to break the (nominal) truce in Idlib, it will be another headache. It will play into the hands of Assad convince that he has other allies. Finding yourself squeezed is what you deserve for being indolent, and indolents in the Dante's inferno go to hell.

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