Seems the Syrian army just wouldn’t fight and its allies couldn’t prop it up this time, which given the speed of the advance makes sense. This is one of the most pathetic shows of bad army moral and corruption I’ve seen in my entire life. There weren’t enough troops willing and able to fight to even make a stand at the capital.
I don’t see how Hezbollah or Iran or even Russia could have saved Assad from an army this bad. The Syrian had to be able to at least slow the enemy down. Hezbollah and Russia no longer had significant numbers of ground forces in the country and couldn’t get enough there soon enough.
This is terrible for Lebanon, Palestine, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Russia loses its Med port and airfield; Hezbollah its land route for supplies and Iran its easy ability to reach its allies.
I hope the new conquerors of Syria are more tolerant than I expect them to be.
I would expect Israel to seize a chunk of southern Syria.
Huge victory for Turkey here. I’d like to think Turkish proxy forces would help Palestine, but Edrogan has been all talk, no action so far when it comes to Gaza.
And the Kurds are going to get it in the throat, which is what happens when you ally with Israel and the US.