Fairy Tales from Moscow

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
February 3, 2025

Finding out the publications of the Russian information company TASS may be as thrilling as studying the accounts of a barber. However typically TASS does ship gems. The “press reviews” specifically are typically attention-grabbing when you control the overarching geopolitical theater and the backdrops arrange for it. The Russian view of developments on the earth is offered to the reader in a matter-of-fact tone and thus in a pleasing distinction to the vulgar, emotional shouting of Western media liars and hack writers.

The TASS-“Press Launch 1906803” dated 31.01.2025 acknowledged, quoting some political analyst:
“On January 28, a Russian interagency delegation visited Syria for the primary time because the change in management. ‘The go to was constructive. Instantly after the Russian diplomat’s journey, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia) was disbanded, whereas al-Sharaa assumed the presidency, taking over a civilian function. This offers hope that dialogue with him is feasible. Cooperation with Bashar Assad confronted critical hurdles final 12 months; in some ways, it was at a standstill. Particularly, Assad ignored all our proposals to strengthen ties with Turkey. The state of affairs might change below the brand new authorities,’ Akhmedov stated.“

Learn and be amazed!

As a result of Bashar from Damascus merely didn’t need to observe the Russian ”proposals”, he’s now gone. It’s his personal fault, after all! And Russia, which all the time and in every single place solely desires the very best, has needed to make concessions to the brand new masters in view of the brand new realities in Syria, as they’ve now arisen as a result of Bashar from Damascus was not pliable sufficient for this world. Life goes on and desires to be formed. Everybody understands that!

One ought to take into account:
The “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia)” (TASS) is exactly the Al-Qaeda and ISIS spin-off that was led by the gentleman with the romantic battle identify Abu Muhammad al-Julani (or Jolani). Till lately, the German-language model of “Wikipedia” nonetheless had the next to say about him: “Ahmad Husain ash-Shar’a […] has been the chief of the Syrian militia alliance Haiʾat Tahrir ash-Sham since 2017. He was the founder and, from 2012 to 2016, chief of the al-Nusra Entrance, which is classed as a terrorist group by the United Nations Safety Council.” (Word: That is the unique textual content of the German-language Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article has since been revised.

This “al-Nusra Entrance” is taken into account the ‘Syrian’ Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda, as each little one is aware of due to the Western media, had been the terrorists round Osma Bin Laden, who had killed many pricey Individuals in New York. In different phrases, they had been the dangerous guys due to whom the USA and its allies had bombed Afghanistan and Iraq to mud.

In Syria, nevertheless, simply as in Libya shortly earlier than, these dangerous guys had been the great guys, i.e. “average rebels”, “freedom fighters” or “the Syrian opposition”, as which they had been additionally formally supported by the FRG authorities.

Since 2011, this ‘opposition’ had turn into infamous for acts akin to rapes, beheadings, terrorist assaults on civilians, assaults on faculties and hospitals, abductions, the homicide of clerics and ransom extortion, extrajudicial killings, homicide, and manslaughter. This may be identified by anybody who desires to know; the web site www.syrianews.cc has reported on this in a whole lot of exactly researched articles since 2011 (see NATO Terrorists Blow up Civilian Bus in Raqqa: 13 Murdered, Daraa: Terrorists Blow Up Farmworkers Car: Eight Murdered, 30 Injured, NATO Terrorists Bomb Electrical Feed to Alouk Water Plant in Syria).

These sorts of ‘moderates’ had now come to energy in Syria and the Al-Qaeda-ISIS-HTS boss Al-Jolani – now simply the Mr. “al-Sharaa” – had taken “the presidency” and “a civilian function” (TASS). The query of who approved him to behave as president of Syria and the Syrian folks is, after all, as soon as once more being requested by the improper folks solely.

Again to the TASS article: The cussed Bashar from Damascus, i.e. the man who had held the presidency earlier than Mr. al-Sharaa, certainly approved by the folks in accordance with the structure, had merely ”ignored all our proposals to strengthen relations with Turkey”, which is why cooperation with him had confronted ”critical hurdles” and had even come to a standstill ”in lots of respects”. Each little one understands that such cussed intransigence should finally go improper and that Russia can not assist it.

What did these Russian “proposals” seem like?

Listed here are just a few examples:

• Russia’s international minister Lavrov and his colleagues talked about Syria within the “Astana format” – with out Syria’s participation. That’s simply the way it’s completed. And that is by all means colonialism and a violation of the Constitution of the United Nations. The agreements reached on Syria with out Syria had been imposed on the reputable Syrian authorities below Russian de facto blackmail (menace of full withdrawal of Russian troops).
• Within the “Doha Discussion board”, Lavrov and his colleagues from Iran and Turkey chatted about Syria – with out Syria’s participation. The final assembly of those gents happened within the Qatari capital on December 6, 2024. That was two days earlier than Damascus fell into the arms of the Turkish-Israeli-American head-choppers of HTS. The Turkish international minister who mentioned Syria’s destiny with Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart is Hakan Fidan.
  This Hakan Fidan had demanded that President Assad give Turkey’s average head-choppers in Syria the best potential autonomy. This inevitably meant a change of Syria from a centralized secular state to a unfastened federation alongside the traces of NATO’s Bosnian offspring. On this federalized Syria, Turkey would have gained huge affect via its tens of 1000’s of Al Qaeda-HTS terrorists, which might have prolonged to the central energy. Whom would which have served? From 2010-2023, precisely through the interval of the Turkish aggression in opposition to Syria, Mr. Fidan was head of the Turkish secret service “MIT” and as such collectively answerable for the Turkish terror in opposition to Syria and President al-Assad.
  Mr. Fidan additionally has that particular type of humor that appears to be peculiar to politicians and diplomats: after the victory of the Turkish-Israeli auxiliary forces in Syria, after the homicide of a whole lot of 1000’s of Syrians, the destruction of Syrian infrastructure and thus the dwelling circumstances of hundreds of thousands of individuals by way of the Al-Qaeda-HTS, this gentleman talks about Ankara’s “dedication to Syria’s stability and regional safety”. Isn’t that good?
• In the meantime, Russian diplomats had been already working with representatives of the US authorities on a totally new structure for Syria which might take away key powers from the president and supposedly strengthen the function of regional and native administrations. Who would profit from THAT within the occasion of warfare? The present Syrian structure (from 2012), which was confirmed by the Syrian folks, was ignored by Russia and the US. That’s simply the way in which it’s completed, and it’s by all means colonialism in blatant violation of the UN Constitution.
  Let’s simply think about that what Russia, along with the USA and Turkey, had determined ON Syria and its reputable management FOR Syria, had been determined for the USA by alien powers and imposed on the USA… I feel you perceive the sample of my thought: that may be completely unthinkable. However within the case of Syria, this smug and brutal colonialism and pact-making of Syria’s supposed ally with Syria’s confirmed enemies, with the very powers that had introduced the phobia warfare on Syria, had been the conventional case.
• In the meantime, the Turkish military and in addition the USA, and in addition “Israel” bombed the Syrian Arab Military. Turkey strengthened the phobia brigades of the HTS in Idlib, the Turkish-terrorist enclave inside Syria, whose formation Syria owed primarily to the affect of Russia. Turkish and Russian troopers carried out joint controls and prevented the SAA from exterminating the Al-Qaeda-HTS terror plague in Idlib.
  From Idlib, nevertheless, the Turkish-VSA-NATO-EU-backed Al-Qaeda-HTS bandits repeatedly launched their assaults, e.g. on Aleppo. “Israeli” jets repeatedly flew assaults on the SAA and, to a higher extent, on civilians in Syria (Israel Bombs Damascus Condo Home, Murders 9), (Israel Bombs Aleppo Int’l Airport: 2nd Such Struggle Crime this Month). After Syria gave up its chemical weapons, which had been designed as a deterrent in opposition to Israel’s nuclear, chemical, and organic weapons, the West thanked it by stepping up the bombing of girls, kids, and civilian infrastructure.
• The S-300 air protection system ordered by Syria again in 2010 and authorized by Russia was by no means used till the tip as a result of it by no means existed in Syria’s arms – whereas Turkey, in any case a member of the aggressive warfare alliance NATO that performs a proxy warfare in opposition to Russia in Ukraine, acquired a elaborate new S-400 from Moscow as quickly because it was ordered. Sure, that’s the way you cope with allies, isn’t it?
• Russia had pressured President Assad to simply accept the Al-Qaeda-HTS terror cell in Idlib. Al-Qaeda-HTS thus gained management of a complete Syrian governorate. Russia had created the circumstances for this: wherever the SAA threatened to get rid of a terrorist group militarily, the Russians got here, stopped the SAA, and supplied these terrorists (murderers of girls and youngsters, rapists, decapitators, looters) a protected exit to Idlib with their mild weapons (the well-known inexperienced buses, keep in mind?). There, Turkey (Hakan Fidan’s MIT) took care of the brand new arrivals, equipped them with heavy weapons, skilled them, and strengthened their ranks with specialists in plundering, raping, and murdering newly recruited from all corners of the planet. The SAA was allowed to look into the blue.
• Russia had repeatedly referred to as on President Assad to fulfill with Turkish President Erdogan. Erdogan has performed a decisive function within the terror warfare waged by the West and the Arab potentates in opposition to Russia’s ally Syria. Lots of of 1000’s of Syrians have fallen sufferer to this proxy warfare via terrorism, which has devastated the civilization of that nation. It was additionally Erdogan who had dozens of factories in Aleppo looted by his Al-Qaeda associates and had the looted items transported to Turkey as stolen items.
• It was additionally Erdogan who had the Syrian oil stolen by ISIS (DAESH), earlier than this job was taken over by the USA below President Trump.
  President Assad had all the time responded to the “proposal” to fulfill with Erdogan with the demand that Turkish troops should first be withdrawn from Syria. After Turkey’s horrible deeds in Syria, which may most likely be summarized as “looting, destroying, murdering, occupying, annexing”, this demand was a military-tactical necessity. On no account did President Assad “ignore” the Kremlin’s so-called “proposals”, however has responded to them with a understandable situation. TASS is telling fairy tales (to keep away from the tough phrase “lies”).

I feel the examples of Russian “proposals” illustrate what has been completely clear to anybody who has been monitoring the warfare in opposition to Syria since a minimum of 2016. Russia didn’t abandon Syria in 2024 – for no matter cause – after the alleged collapse of the SAA. Russia betrayed its solely ally in Arabia lengthy earlier than that in a number of diplomatic and political initiatives and shut cooperation with Syria’s enemies in opposition to Syria.

Russia has not solely failed to attain the objectives of the navy operation in Syria introduced by President Putin himself – the destruction of terrorism inside Syria. Russia’s actions have contributed to bringing to energy in Syria exactly these terrorists who’ve been unleashed on Syria by the USA, EU, NATO, and Arab potentates since 2011 in an effort to get rid of the Syrian Arab Republic as resistance in opposition to “Israel” and as an ally of Russia. The horrible penalties of the present state of affairs for hundreds of thousands of Syrians in Syria appear to be irrelevant to all these concerned within the recreation.

Lastly, TASS writes, quoting a Russian analyst: “‘The state of affairs might change below the brand new authorities’[…].”

And, voila!, it already has: Just lately, the HTS gang, now calling itself the “authorities”, terminated the Russian-Syrian lease on the port of Tartus. This will show to be deadly: ”The Tartus port, Syria’s second-largest after Latakia, is a essential Mediterranean hub […] and residential to Russia’s solely naval base within the area. Established in 1971 by the Soviet Union and later expanded in 2017, the bottom has served as a strategic outpost for Russian navy operations within the Center East.” Bashar from Damascus in 2019 waived Russia’s lease and gave up 65% of the port’s revenues in favor of a Russian funding in its enlargement. What an obstinate man.

Russia’s management has betrayed a shut good friend who had sacrificed himself to guard Russia’s pursuits.

It takes a really particular type of intelligence to grasp such actions as strategic foresight in Russia’s pursuits.

Those that have noticed and analyzed the phobia warfare in opposition to Syria since 2011 should really feel vindicated if what has been denied by Putin’s admirers is now confirmed.

The nations ought to take a more in-depth look and be taught.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup training and, amongst others,
in Human assets improvement for a US-American firm in Germany.

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