Putin Back on Track

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
February 23, 2025

Vladimir Putin, the superhero of the European pseudo-patriotic bourgeoisie, is again in Syria – by cellphone.

After the autumn of Damascus into the palms of the mass murderers of the Al-Qaeda department HTS, supported by the West, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, “Israel” and – in truth – Russia, Syria has been plunged into the deepest and darkest abyss that humanity can think about.

The entire world was in a position to watch because the anti-Islamic Wahhabi scum poured over the nation and its defenseless inhabitants and has been dwelling out an orgy of probably the most perverse violence ever since. The Bitchute channel “Orestes Dervos” reveals movies from Syria that can not be watched with out the chance of acute shock and nightmares. The channel goals to doc the bestial violence of those uninhibited creatures. I don’t promote these movies, which had been clearly filmed by HTS bandits themselves, nor can I confirm the content material.

The Western press is portray a rosy propaganda image of a liberated Syria, whereas in actuality the butchers of the HTS are brutally torturing and murdering individuals based mostly on their faith or political opinions. Threats, intimidation, kidnappings, extortion of safety cash, and extrajudicial executions by the bearded lynch mob are the order of the day and are documented by brave Syrians. In the meantime, Syrians who haven’t but been murdered by the HTS are affected by starvation, chilly and abject poverty. The United Nations (UN) candidly states in a examine: “90 % of Syrians now stay in poverty, 1 / 4 are unemployed and GDP has shrunk to lower than half of what it was in 2011.”

The Kremlin, in any other case by no means embarrassed to blast Russian coverage to the world by grandiloquent propaganda from its subordinate media and the same old (naïve or money-hungry) helpful idiots, turned unusually tight-lipped about Syria. It was apparent to everybody that the Russian conspiracy with Syria’s enemies Turkey and “Israel” had produced the outcomes desired by Syria’s enemies (see Fairy Tales from Moscow). The champagne corks actually popped in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Tel Aviv (the rulers in Ankara, Doha, and Riyadh might have toasted with tea).

That was a bit embarrassing. In order that they tried to both mute the difficulty or sweep it off the desk with outright lies. Uncharacteristically brief and conspicuously loveless justifications for the Russian betrayal of its most loyal ally, which was apparent to the entire world, have alternated over the previous two months. We’re all nonetheless ringing with the breathtakingly audacious declare by Putin that his Syria mission was profitable as a result of the West has now taken HTS off the fear record. This assertion is such a brutal lie and so stupidly illogical that I’ll henceforth use the time period “Putinization” for this type of perfidious mental air pollution and introduce the “Putin Scale”. The Putin Scale grades the extent of malicious distortion and deliberate untruths within the statements of the person from St. Petersburg in addition to of his entourage: “One Putin” is the bottom stage, let’s say an implanted inaccuracy. “10 Putins”, alternatively, are the utmost of perfidious deception. I price the aforementioned assertion by Putin at 9.5 on the Putin Scale.

However now the interval of restraint is lastly over, and the nice Russia underneath the management of Putin is again on observe. Now humanity can breathe a sigh of reduction and hope. No less than that a part of humanity that also believes in fairy tales.

We realized from the media that Putin known as Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on February 12. Nicely, that’s sensible, isn’t it? You don’t even have to go away your safe sphere of affect and presumably face adversity equivalent to dangerous climate or the dressing sight of a destroyed nation. The truth that with this step, a direct contact on the presidential stage, Putin has nearly elevated the pinnacle of HTS, who till lately had a bounty on his head for terrorism, to the extent of president, with out this gentleman ever having been licensed by any Syrian in a constitutional process, deserves a particular point out. Naïve minds like mine may simply provide you with the concept that this was deliberate.

The HTS, which was voted into energy by the united Western-Turkish-Israeli-Arab-Russian conspiracy, had made its desired relationship with Russia clear at an early stage: whereas Lavrov was trumpeting that Russia would return to Syria, the brand new regime had clearly expressed its want to eliminate Russia:
“Syria’s new transitional authority, appointed by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) extremist group, has mentioned there is no such thing as a place for Russian troops within the nation, calling on Moscow to rethink its presence.
‘I feel that Russia ought to rethink its presence on Syrian territory in addition to its pursuits. Their pursuits had been linked to the legal Assad Regime. They’ll rethink and take the initiative to succeed in out to the brand new administration to indicate that they haven’t any animosity with the Syrian individuals and that the period of the Assad regime is lastly over”.

That’s a transparent assertion. In Moscow, nevertheless, it was winter, and maybe the fur hat was tight on the ears…

However the Kremlin is already promising “high-level contacts” with the average head-choppers. You simply have to remain involved – if needed even with the bearded males in Damascus. With this announcement, Lavrov has admitted that Russia at the moment performs no position in Syria.

One has to ask oneself what the entire Syria journey has truly achieved, and there’s a solution: Moreover the deaths of a number of Russian troopers, the autumn of a cultural nation into the darkest abyss of barbarism, tons of of hundreds of Syrians killed, tens of millions of refugees, concern, starvation and chilly, a horrible impoverishment of the individuals, destroyed infrastructure and housing, a shattered economic system, a complete technology of traumatized Syrian youths with out a actual probability of a future and a destroyed nation underneath the reign of terror of a heinous gang of murderers, the presumably imminent finish of the Russian navy bases in Tartus and Latakia.

What did the Russian troopers in Syria fall for? What mind acrobatics will the Putin admirers use to gloss over this totally unforgivable betrayal by Putin towards Syria and his personal individuals?

However I digress. Now the duty is to have hope, to look ahead, to overlook the previous and, in fact, to all the time dangle faithfully and believingly on the lips of our superheroes. So, onwards:

“This dialogue is pivotal because it underscores Russia’s ongoing involvement in Syrian affairs and its intentions to help the nation in numerous capacities. […]
Through the name, President Putin expressed Russia’s willingness to help in enhancing the socio-economic circumstances in Syria. This consists of the supply of humanitarian support, reflecting the nation’s dedication to help its ally in navigating the continued challenges confronted by the Syrian populace.
• Putin’s name with Ahmed al-Sharaa is a continuation of Russia’s diplomatic efforts within the area.
• Russia goals to solidify its navy presence in Syria by naval and air bases.
• The Kremlin is concentrated on humanitarian initiatives to enhance dwelling circumstances in Syria.
[…] In abstract, the current cellphone name between President Putin and Ahmed al-Sharaa is a transparent indication of Russia’s ongoing dedication to Syria.”

On the Putin Scale, that’s a strong 5 Putins, would you agree? Let’s take a more in-depth look:

1. Putin declares his willingness (that is nothing however an announcement) “to help in enhancing the socio-economic circumstances in Syria” – and why didn’t Putin achieve this when Syria was not but within the palms of his HTS good friend in Damascus? When Syrian ladies didn’t but should veil themselves? When Christians and Alawites had not but been massacred? When Syria had a Syrian president constitutionally licensed by the individuals in direct elections and never a turkish-citizen managed by “Israel” and Turkey? When Syrians had not but burnt their books both for concern that the HTS would possibly discover them or for heating their houses as a result of full lack of gasoline and gas?
2. Putin sees it as his responsibility to “to help its ally in navigating the continued challenges confronted by the Syrian populace”. Did we get that proper – Putin declares the HTS homicide gang an “ally”? Is that this the reason for his grotesque assertion that Russia had achieved its targets in Syria?
3. The Kremlin desires of getting a future in HTS-ruled Syria and “to solidify its navy presence in Syria by naval and air bases”. To what extent does this slot in with the recommendation introduced by HTS that Russia ought to say goodbye to Syria earlier than it might be kicked out (see above), solely time will inform; in any case, there’s a contradiction between the official statements from Damascus concerning the way forward for a Russian navy presence in Syria and Moscow’s propagated goals.
4. “The Kremlin is concentrated on humanitarian initiatives to enhance dwelling circumstances in Syria.” Arabi Souri (www.syrianews.cc) lately has fairly rightly raised the query of why Russia and Iran, two international locations swimming in oil and gasoline, haven’t been keen to assist Syria overcome the power disaster triggered by Western sanctions and the occupation of oil wells by the US military, however have as a substitute been doing gasoline enterprise with their frequent enemy, Turkey: “what may occur when empowering an enemy over an ally?“ (Learn: https://www.patreon.com/posts/all-syria-needed-118263983). Distant Venezuela has been supplying Syria with oil.

Contemplating the awful preliminary state of affairs, which was made potential by him, the little man from St. Petersburg has taken on an excellent deal. The UN estimates the interval required for Syria’s financial restoration (to pre-war ranges) at 55 years: “[…] at present development charges, Syria’s economic system is not going to regain its pre-conflict GDP stage earlier than 2080”.

In different phrases, that makes one other two generations of Syrians who, till the financial establishment ante of 2010 is restored, can be condemned to stay in poverty and hardship, uncovered to a stage of humiliation and distress that the ignorant, wealth-deprived plenty of Westerners can not even think about of their nightmares – even when they wished to. If this UN projection is right, behind the Syrians of 2080 will then lie a complete 70 years of struggle, struggling, distress, terror, destruction, poverty, concern, and the toil of reconstruction. Allow us to concentrate on this!

Alternatively, if we take a look at the up to now anti-Syrian strategy of the Russian management, we are able to in all probability guess that the bulletins will maybe not all the time be adopted by implementation.
A touch upon Putin’s chat together with his “ally”, usurping the presidency in Damascus, sums it up in my view:
“And some weeks in the past Lavrov was calling Jolani a terrorist. Russia doesn’t deserve compliments about what they supposedly did however principally not did in Syria which was imagined to again the Syrian individuals. Who wins in all this by this duplicity from the a part of Russia who didn’t actually was that huge assist to Syria? ISRAEL. Obtained blocked on RT for mentioning that Russia was certainly taking part in a grimy sport to Syrians. See the outcomes of Russian international coverage? Hundreds of km of Syrian territory at the moment are occupied by ISRAEL and Syria is de facto turning into a Zionist colony. We name this double-crossers.“ – Rabelais.

The extremely skilled analyst and writer Iurie Rosca has summarized it a lot better than I ever may:
“Syria has been betrayed by the masters of Kremlin politics. And we now have sufficient components to suspect that they’re removed from Russia’s borders. To ascertain their id is sufficient to ask ourselves who the collapse of Syria serves. Actually, Israel. And its two proxy states, the US and Turkey.”

We will ensure that Putin will proceed to justify this versatile “Kremlin coverage” with extremely inventive excuses which will someday trigger the Putin Scale to shatter…

Allow us to finish this story with a presumably conciliatory outlook.

In 1869, Mark Twain printed his journey report “The Innocents Overseas, or, the New Pilgrim’s Progress“. He wrote about Damascus:
“We will bear in mind … Damascus, the ‘Pearl of the East’, the delight of Syria, the fabled backyard of Eden, the house of princes and genii of the Arabian Nights, the oldest metropolis on Earth, the one metropolis in all of the world that has stored its identify and held its place and regarded serenely on whereas the Kingdoms and Empires of 4 thousand years have risen to life, loved their little season of delight and pomp, after which vanished and been forgotten.”

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

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