TheAltWorld When Putin Sold Out Syria and Iran, Did He Sell Out Russia?
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Many wonder why Putin abandoned Syria after fighting 9 years in Syria’s defense. Putin’s abandonment of Syria might have been influenced by China’s conditional support for Russia in Ukraine. China’s conditions include “no expansion of the battlefield, no escalation of fighting.” These conditions might also explain why Europe and the US have been spared strikes in response to their attacks on Russia with long range missiles. In his speech yesterday (December 14) to United Russia, the dominant political party , Putin redefined his threatened strikes against the West. They have been reduced to retaliations within Ukraine.
The Chinese communique published in Xinhua, the official state news agency of the People’s Republic of China, on Medvedev’s meeting with Xi, reads: “On the Ukraine crisis, China has repeatedly emphasized the need to uphold the three principles of no expansion of the battlefield, no escalation of fighting and no provocation by any party [this only applies to Russia], to promote the easing of the situation as soon as possible, Xi said. He added that China will continue to adhere to its consistent position and work with the international community to create favorable conditions for the political settlement of the crisis.
https://english.news.cn/20241213/5619c58e58e44decb2cd7438a6e3b5b1/c.html
Medvedev said that the Russian side speaks highly of China’s position on the Ukraine crisis, pays attention to the Group of Friends for Peace on the Ukraine crisis, an initiative put forward by China, Brazil and other countries, and is willing to actively promote the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis. It sounds like, as in Syria, Russia will abandon a battlefield settlement where it has the edge and make a paper settlement where Russia always loses.
John Helmer, who has been reporting from Moscow for 35 years, wonders if Putin’s disastrous decisions will bring a time of troubles between Putin and the Russian General Staff.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-new-time-of-troubles-part-ii-putin-overruled-the-general-staff/
Helmer reports that “The General Staff and GRU warned Putin that Erdogan and Netanyahu could not be trusted to adhere to the Astana Agreement, and that without Russian military force to deter them, plus Iranian troops, they would take over Syrian territory – the Turks down the coast to the Lebanese border and to Damascus; the Israelis across the Golan and the Quneitra buffer zone into the southern outskirts of Damascus.” Washington gets to keep the oil area of Syria. The Russian General Staff was correct. The partition of Syria along these lines is now occurring.
From Helmer’s report, it appears that the Israel Lobby owns Putin as well as Washington:
“A well-informed Moscow source comments there is no surprise in Moscow at Putin’s decision-making to favor Israel and Turkey at the expense of the Arabs and Iran. The source also warns that the surprise expressed by Anglo-American podcasters who support Putin in the Ukraine war “reflects their readiness to say what they believe the Kremlin wants to hear – with or without reward.”
“An accurate guide to the Kremlin propaganda line right now, the source indicates, is a Moscow-based American academic named Andrew Korybko. He has turned the General Staff’s warning upside down, defending Putin’s decision to accommodate Israel and Turkey in Syria as reflecting the realistic military balance in the Middle East right now. “Putin is a proud lifelong philo-Semite,” Korybko says, “who never shared the Resistance’s unifying anti-Zionist ideology, instead always expressing very deep respect for Jews and the State of Israel. . . . Russia dodged a bullet by wisely choosing not to ally with the now-defeated [Arab-Iranian] Resistance Axis since it would have needlessly ruined its relations with Israel, the undisputable victor of the West Asian Wars.” [Definition of philo-Semite:
“This is toadying,” the Moscow source comments, but indicative. “The toad is giving voice to those who think, plan, decide. He is giving the clearest official line on it all.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry sent the message that Syria is not a topic for discussion by evading questions of a Russian defeat.
Possibly Putin has revealed himself as a person devoid of strategic vision who has condemned both Russia and Iran to an indefensible position. On the other hand, he might be betting that Israel and Washington will be absorbed with the problems of dealing with the Middle East, leaving him a freer hand to go forward with BRICS. The risk is that having achieved what Israel and Washington regard as a strategic defeat of Russia and Iran, provocations of Russia will intensify and the difficulty of ending the conflict in Ukraine in a Russian victory has increased. The perception of a Russian defeat will likely hamper the development of BRICS.
Helmer reports that the Kremlin’s propaganda is focused on victory in Ukraine, which satisfies the public, and there is no public issue of the loss in Syria. The dissent is limited to the Russian military where there is concern that Russia cannot successfully defend herself without the ability to project power beyond her borders, an ability that was lost with Syria.
https://english.news.cn/20241213/5619c58e58e44decb2cd7438a6e3b5b1/c.html
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The sell out of Syria impacts further than just Syria, much further. Helmer bases his interpretation of the Russian public opinion on polls which are, like media, favorable to the party in power.
How fair are these polls? Nobody knows.
But even if Russians see no issue with the humiliating capitulation in Syria (it’s not a defeat because for a defeat to occur a fight must have taken place which wasn’t the case), the rest of the world sees and tells louder every day that Putin has not only betrayed Syria but his allies and Russia.
Russia for the first time since 2015 is seen as weak and compromised.
It is also now clear that Putin in indeed a zionist shill exactly like the people he pretends to fight in the West.
And since Zelensky is also a zionist Jew, then things start to be even more suspicious even on the Ukrainian “war”.
How many Global South” countries can now put their trust in Russia like Syria did at its own expense?
It is very important to note that Israel was losing on all fronts in Gaza, Lebanon and internationally until the “ceasefire” (which isn’t one) pushed on Lebanon and Hezbollah by former israeli officer Amos Hochstein.
From this moment on, Hezbollah, Iran, Russia, the Resistance started to lose and Syria was invaded. From almost complete victory after months of fight to utter defeat in few days.
It makes no sense of course.
As Helmer reminds us, Putin already knew on November 27 that he will abandon Syria.
What was really negotiated in Lebanon and in Doha?
We know from Lebanese Al Mayadeen that and “understating” was agreed between Trump and Putin: Syria vs Ukraine.
english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-trap-of-diplomacy
What else contained these negotiations? Why has Hezbollah been silent since despite daily ceasefire violations by the Israelis?
What the Israelis are doing is simple: they obliterate Hezbollah tunnels, kill Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Hezbollah does nothing except surreal communiqués where their leader explains how much they won (the proof).
I don’t see how the Chinese would have been bothered if the Russians had fought in Syria, on the contrary with the new pro-US groups in place, their economic projects in the region might become moot.
Putin’s capitulation is of course seen as weakness by the western side and they will of course push further, but Putin also condemned Palestinians to even more genocide and ethnic cleansing. I don’t see how any of Russia muslim allies could appreciate, including Muslims inside Russia like Chechens who might get ideas from what they saw in Syria.
There are still some dreamers who think that Putin, like Trump in 2020, is playing 4 or 5D chess and “is setting a trap for his opponents”…
Ludicrous.
After a while and given the extremely slow process of the never ending “special operation” in Ukraine, one can wonders if Putin, after having put back Russia at the top, is not now taking it down on purpose.
Will the “special operation” be over by 2030, so that we can ready for the project of Putin’s former WEF pals: ‘having nothing’ and being happy”?
Like our western puppets, Putin didn’t serve Russia’s interests but Israel, Turkey and US ones and everybody sees it.
Putin has just burnt all the work done in the last ten years. Because of ” philo-Semitism”?
It doesn’t add-up, it might be hard to accept but Putin more and more looks another crisis actor like our western zionist puppets.