For everyone that is confused why me and other Syrians might be happy about this:

A stagnant, oppressive and expired regime has finally been kicked out after strangling us since 1971. Yeah yeah the geopolitical implication and all that, but we're human in the end and there's an emotional weight in seeing the omniscient Baath regime with all the fucking Hafez and Bashar statues and pictures get stomped on and thrown in the trash. Let us have this at least, these fuckers have killed or tortured a young man from every single Syrian family.

Free Syria? More like Syria being freely annexed by "Israel"...

They didn't wait even for one second, it's almost as if they had it all figured out beforehand. That's the way they operate, the most disgusting country in the world..

Hebrew media reports that a group of Israeli soldiers accidentally entered a minefield on the Lebanon border, leading to an explosion that injured eight of them in 'Ras al-Naqoura.'

Wtf?

Israel carried out several airstrikes against buildings in Damascus, including the passport & migration office

Israel is currently invading Syria, Bibi said the 1974 agreement is over and now they can invade Syria freely. Doubt these terrorist can organize any strong resistance to stop Israel, the Syrian Interim Government will probably only last a couple of months.

'Starting tonight, the main battle front will move to Syria. We will start fighting on the Syrian front and will not allow anyone to reach our borders' – IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi

Since Israel couldn't defeat Iran, Yemen, Hezbollah or Palestine, now they want a "quick and easy" victory in Syria to boost their garbage morale. And probably so the IDF doesn't coup Bibi and replace him with a general.

Rebel Southern Operations Room: 'We do not have the capacity to withstand Israeli advances. This matter does not have our priority currently. We need to work on solidifying a united Syria, free of Assad'

ASSAD IS ALREADY GONE!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!

Made it out of Syria for the time being. Chaos rules, looting, thuggery and thieving. Gets the US Israel stamp of approval because this is what they believe in. Going through the border was a mash of gunfire, infighting and looting from every single shop and market. Terrorists on motorcycles, gunslingers and criminals. An incredibly sad experience. The house was surrounded by "rebels" drunk in "victory" from 5am, constant celebratory gunfire and around 10 they tried to beat the external door down to loot the contents of the house. Early morning Israel was destroying #Syria Air Defence with bunker buster bombs. The whole house shook. The CIA road map is always the same. The Resistance is broken and I doubt it can be repaired but the extremist mercenaries in the pay of Israel will tell you they "support Palestine". Go on then, you are on the border now.

Fuck it, self crit time. Haven’t been this off base since 2/22. I stand by my stance that we need better info discipline in times in chaos, but I was obviously incorrect and had been shitty about it over the last week. Anyways for anyone celebrating this, this is who they’re fans of

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241002-exclusive-france-24-speaks-to-syrian-revolution-supporters-as-they-celebrate-nasrallah-death

It will be the greatest day of my life if we see these scenes in Cairo and Amman one day

Seems like Israel is bombing all of Syria's Military Bases + Damascus. I guess they don't want the terrorists to use the Syrian Airforce equipament to defend Syria?

Do you think Biden's ~~regime~~ administration is pushing, without even thinking, for more arms for Ukraine, war in Syria, pardon for Hunter, coup in South Korea, etc... Because the Democrats really believe that Donald “Orangeman” Trump is actually friends with Vladimir Putin, Kim and Xi, and that he will simply hand over the entire US to them and destroy NATO? So now they're pulling this shit in an attempt to force Trump to continue Biden's foreign policy or at least sabotage any attempt by Trump to make a deal?

CNN reporting that Assad and family have arrived safely in Moscow and have been granted asylum

Ok I wake up and Syria has fallen to the dumb ass terroists? Is this Lybia 2.0? What the fuck man?

This year has been nutty.

1. Trump won U.S. elections in large part due to high cost of living

2. Modi lost his Parliamentary majority despite electoral fuckery due to high cost of living and mass unemployment

3. Hasina Government in Bangladesh got overthrown in large part due to high cost of living and mass unemployment.

4. And now, Syria, though of course in this case external interference was much more overt.

I think neoliberalism is not working. Nothing is going to change for any of these countries because within the neoliberal framework, there is no answer. The replacements will be just as bad if not worse.

The Saudis are probably feeling real stupid about letting Syria back into the Arab League in 2023. MBS should have just held out a little longer and Syria would have indeed collapsed.

Insert here that meme with the two guys digging for diamonds.

Bashar Hafizovich Assad is Apperently in Moskau.

Feel kinda relieved , maybe he can finally open his eye Clinic..

Yemen's Ansarullah have announced that, in cooperation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, they attacked a 'vital target' in the south of Israel using drones.

So is there going to be some sort of accountability from the users and mods here who spent this whole week calling everyone who was saying this situation was bad a "doomer" and accusing people, including people from the region, of spreading CIA/terrorist misinfo and deleting posts, or are you all going to pretend you didn't do that?

This mega didn't learn its lesson from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Like with any collapse, i imagine a critical mass of people decided a corrupt, disintegrating status quo just wasn’t worth trying to save anymore, even despite the alternative. Doesn’t necessarily mean Syria will be a new Afghanistan. Although Afghanistan is an interesting example, because the Taliban did not arise out of the Mujahideen, rather they swept into power once the Mujahideen disintegrated into infighting and warlordism. Probably one of the reasons for this disintegration was that the foreign powers supporting the anti-Soviet fighters ceased to give any fucks about Afghanistan once the Soviets were kicked out. But I dont know enough about Syria to guess what its future will look like, or if theyll be any appetite for continued fighting.

I expected a lot more blood to be spilled and I am glad that it wasn't. The political alignments are concerning, of course, but Syrians deserve peace and stability.

It looks like Assad had no real ability to keep the government together this time. Not that I supported the rebels, but I'm glad that the whole country wasn't set on fire just for him to lose anyway.

In the long run I hope that we see a new pan-Arab socialist movement form, and I hope that it will be Marxist this time.

Israel sure ain't wasting any time, dammit

Russian Channel One, quoting sources in the Kremlin: 'Former President Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived safely in Moscow'

'Iran warned Assad two months ago that HTS was preparing to make a move, but he dismissed the threat. So the Turkish Foreign Minister gave us assurances that nothing will take place, which turned out to be a lie. After HTS entered Western Aleppo, Iran expected Assad to ask for military assistance, and we were fully prepared to oblige with troops and whatever else was needed – but no such request came. After Aleppo fell, it became clear that Assad had no real intentions of staying in power, so we started to engage in diplomatic talks with the opposition, and arranged the safe exit of our troops from Syria. If the SAA does not fight, neither will we risk our soldiers' lives. Russia and the UAE had managed to convince him to step down, so there was nothing we could do.' – Iranian Officials

Idk if this is true, could be Iranian cope or Assad really was this dumb

Assad day for Syria.

All of this gnostic talk kind of proves the pitfalls of supporting any religion based resistance movement. It's not very deep, people are just losing faith. (Ironically alawites are influenced by gnosticism too which is probably partly why they are in such danger right now, remember what happened to the melek taus worshippers)

Now is the time for honesty. The honest issue here is that the axis of resistance requires a strong Iran and a strong Russia. This is probably why Israel let October 7th happen, it was the worst possible timing for an intifada. At the end of the day, Hamas is a Muslim brotherhood offshoot that supported Syrian rebels, the fact that hezbollah even helped them at all was an act of mercy that explains the initial hesitation.

As for the future of Syria, the knives are already coming out. The new Bin Laden is talking about legal principles for the protection of minorities, but I am pretty sure he just means jizzya taxes and other tolerances of people of the book that is already found in sharia. (Not sure if that applies to alawites since sunnis view them as super heretics) He also talked about communal confederalism (Occalan's comunalism winning in Syria was not on my bingo card) which is probably why I am hearing rumors that Erdogan is about to sanction him. (Will confirm later)

As this goes on greater Israel expands past the Golan heights. The question here is how they deal with a Druze breakaway state and if they think attacking Latakia is worth missing off Russia and clearing the board for Erdogan, the true winner of the Biden administration. (He helped orchestrate the defeat of both Armenia and Syria, neo ottomanism is going to replace axis of resistance talk for the next two decades.

Starting up the next news mega early given the bombshell that's happened.

“Moderate” Syrian rebels (Al Qaeda) as Zionist tanks roll in to establish the Großisraelisches Reich: “We did it Patrick, we saved Syria!”

I'm starting to believe that there is a god out there, but that god is an evil god. That god is a god that not only allowed white supremacy, genocide, and colonialism to reign victorious for centuries, they actively supported them and blessed the perpetrators. They are the same god that decided the Al-Aqsa flood would not dislodge Israel after a year, but Israel-friendly terrorists take over an entire country in less than two weeks. A god that deserves to be overthrown, and their followers punished for their transgressions and crimes against humanity.

Bro wtf there's a report the Israelis already reached and occupied Al Harah, that is well outside even the demilitarized zone, how did they reach it in less than 24 hours?

Syrian opposition releases 67 members of Al Qassam Brigades in addition to 630 other Palestinians —some of them had been declared killed years ago— from the notorious prison of Sednaya!

Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry:

'We are following the dramatic events in Syria with extreme concern. As a result of negotiations between Bashar al-Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to leave the presidential post and left the country, giving instructions to transfer power peacefully

Russia did not participate in these negotiations. At the same time, we appeal to all parties involved with a strong call to renounce the use of violence and resolve all governance issues by political means.

In this regard, the Russian Federation is in contact with all groups of the Syrian opposition. We call for respect for the opinions of all ethno-confessional forces of Syrian society, and support efforts to establish an inclusive political process based on the unanimously adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2254.

We expect that these approaches will be taken into account by the UN and all interested players, including in the context of the implementation of the initiative of the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Syria, Georg Pedersen, to urgently organize inter-Syrian inclusive negotiations in Geneva.

At the same time, all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safety of our citizens in Syria. Russian military bases in Syria are on high alert. There is currently no serious threat to their security.'

Can anyone confirm this? I saw footage of what seemed like riots around the Russian Controlled-Syrian land. Also I saw some people talking about reestablishing a Alawite State, and some group called Alawite Muslim Defence League, no idea what was that about.

If Assad was truly on that plane, then maybe it's time Russian proxy leaders and client statesmen learn to NOT to board a Russian plan the moment you've royally pissed off your Kremlin handlers.

“After the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in coming to power in Syria, we reiterate our message to them:

Gaza is still being violated, and today you have a historic opportunity to fulfill your jihadi duty, as does Turkey. We pledge that we in Yemen, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon will stand by your side and overlook all our differences with you, just as we previously did with Hamas.”

— Mohammad Al-Bukhaiti, member of the Ansarallah Politburo, Governor of Dhamar

Thoughts???

I guess a year from now we are going to be seeing reports of Jihadi crimes in Syria with people asking what went wrong in Syria

Thank god I touched grass and didn't have to read the news today, just did a quick glance of the headlines and it's all terrible, may the lib MSMs be damned.

So I would already like to do some self-reflection and I have to say, what the hell Alexander Mercouris? I didn't have much time to doom over the past week so I just listened to his soothing voice every night, and he was all "oh yeah maybe the situation doesn't look good but I have news of Iranian militiamen preparing to move in, and the Russian air force is much stronger than it was in 2015 and it is hitting the rebel hard, or so this Russian telegram channel is saying..." I was close to posting his happy face in this thread several times over the last few days to counter the dooming voices here, I mean just look at the guy:

Then yesterday there was a SHARP change of tone in his Syria opening reporting and he said stuff like "Russia will probably cut ties with Assad if they deem it approriate" and I was like, well that's new, sounds almost like a kiss of death to me!" and then I wake up to the ousting of the Young Lion. I'm pretty bummed at Mercouris right now, like WTF dude? You sold me a damn bridge man, I was THIS close to investing a few hundred bucks in Assad staying in power through 2024 on Polymarket. Damn. You really can't rely too much on these multipolarity guys. Wonder if there's any self-critique in his next program.

That's all, thanks for reading, hope it doesn't get deleted because it's not really news, but I had to write it down, you know how it is.