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Thu 7:30 pm +00:00, 12 Dec 2024 3

posted by danceaway

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13 Dec 2024 10:21

pete fairhurst 2 says:

Some interesting points from Mr Orlov

Geopolitics isn’t a profession, it’s a talking shop

Syria is a piece of paper on a map, it’s not a country, the map was drawn by the Brits and French after the fall of the Ottomans. It’s a tribal society not a country. Ditto all the other Arab nations

Assad is an ophthalmologist, not a dictator

Iran stopped delivering oil to Syria in 2023 so it’s collapse was inevitable

The Arab project is ending, Libya, Iraq, Syria already gone. When Egypt collapses it will be over. Collapse and depopulation will be the trend

Syria has valuable phosphates which are exploited by Russia with Trump family help. His daughter is married to the billionaire in question

Syria and the Shia crescent was an Iran vanity project. Syria has nothing to offer except oil which the US exploits, and phosphates which Trump family and Russia exploit

The only reason Russia got involved with Syria was the ISIS threat. It used a now defunct private military company [Wagner I assume]. ISIS remnant now runs Syria. War technology has moved on, missiles and drones, so no worries. Control can be by remote control

Syrians don’t fight, the “army” organises checkpoints to fleece the locals. Useless military, collapse not unexpected in Russia

Tartus is not a good base. Plenty of other options. Why bother, bases are expensive. Russian point of view is keep an eye on Syria and act by remote control if they get out of hand

Turkey and Russia? Force majeure, Assad quit, if there is no Syria it doesn’t matter. Syria is not a thing, it’s null and void. Turkey is a gas hub for Russia. Russia is building power plants for Turkey. Turkey is a Russia tourist destination. Turkey sell lots of fruit and veg to Russia. Syria is not relevant to any of that

That’s just the first 25 minutes
13 Dec 2024 11:56

danceaway says:

Thanks for writing all this out, Pete.

I find it fascinating. Imagine others will as well. And all expressed in a dead pan, matter of fact manner, which is humorous in itself! Thanks again!!
- 13 Dec 2024 13:05
  
  pete fairhurst 2 says:
  
  Yes danceaway, deadpan and matter of fact, with intentional irony too
  
  The second half is just as interesting as the first that I summarised