Alex Christoforou
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Naturally the Western MSM all tell the same story. They are all sitting in the same bar in a luxury hotel in Tel-Aviv. Safest place in the Middle East – they think. All talking to one another, arriving at consensus.
Maybe HTS reasons that, if the Russians killed 2,000 of them when they hadn’t harmed any Russians, a lot worse might happen if a single Russian were hurt or killed.
Listening to the first few paragraphs of Alexander’s account of Russia’s interaction with the HTS, and having listened to Alex Krainer’s “Russian trap” idea expressed in his interview with Larry Johnson, my first thought is that, whereas the Russians may not have set the Syria situation as a trap from the outset, I firmly believe that they were aware of the moves that Turkey, Israel, CIA were making, and decided to turn it to their advantage. The behaviour of Assad, the Syrian Arab Army, Assad’s brother, the HTS towards the Russians, etc, the fact that Assad was in Moscow (convenient… Read more »
I dont the think a graduation ceromony in Russia at the time of a rebel attack can be ‘all too convenient’. The ceromony waas not arranged for th epurpose! That’s silly.
re Turkey having leverage over Russia in allowing Russia to retain its bases, given that HTS does not have the military power to intimidate any of the US/Isr/Rus forces in Syria, doesn’t Russia actually retain leverage over Erdogan by not co-opting HTS to turn against him???
Or at least a mutually beneficial arrangement to both Erdogan and Russia through having the Russian bases in Syria?
ref: Assead’s ast days in Damascus: the discussion fails to address the omportant question as to WHY Assad returned on the 29th, when, if twhat they say is true, he may as well have stayed on in Moscow.
To gather everyone before making an escape?