Rumors flying around the internet that a private jet that took off from Damascus and then vanished off FlightRadar had Assad onboard and May have crashed. We shall see, but his regime has all but fallen tonight
If that did happen, hard to imagine that it would have crashed by mere happenstance. Someone trying to prevent him from being in exile? Someone that wants deniability.
Putin already used that tactic with Prigozhin, I could see him preemptively deciding that Assad should meet the same fate. (Obviously extremely high degree of speculation here)
I have a sense that the rebels had been cutting deals on the down low with local authorities and commanders for weeks or months, and were just waiting for the right moment to execute the plan. Basically, what happened in Afghanistan 3 years ago.
I thought Damascus had a week or two. It had a day.
What a massive turnaround. The rebels were besieged for years in Idlib and even suffered a major earthquake not too long ago.
Rumors flying around the internet that a private jet that took off from Damascus and then vanished off FlightRadar had Assad onboard and May have crashed. We shall see, but his regime has all but fallen tonight
If that did happen, hard to imagine that it would have crashed by mere happenstance. Someone trying to prevent him from being in exile? Someone that wants deniability.
Putin already used that tactic with Prigozhin, I could see him preemptively deciding that Assad should meet the same fate. (Obviously extremely high degree of speculation here)
Assuming he's alive, maybe he could start a podcast with Snowden. They can call it "The Useful Idiot Follies."
I have a sense that the rebels had been cutting deals on the down low with local authorities and commanders for weeks or months, and were just waiting for the right moment to execute the plan. Basically, what happened in Afghanistan 3 years ago.