Posted on 01/15/2016 5:52:55 AM PST by huldah1776
Baku - APA. Russia could give asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he has to leave his country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on January 12, according to RFE/RL.
"It was surely more difficult to grant [U.S. national security contractor Edward] Snowden asylum in Russia than it would be in the case of Assad," Putin told the German tabloid Bild, referring to the American leaker of classified U.S. documents who was given asylum in Russia in 2013.
Putin said it was too early to say whether Russia would have to give shelter to Assad as part of a transition to a new government for Syria under the road map to a peace deal approved by most parties in the Syrian conflict last year.
"First, the Syrian population has to be able to vote, and then we will see if Assad would have to leave his country if he loses the election," Putin said
This would actually be helpful, but I doubt Assad will go. And Assad, being a lot like Putin, could pal around with him. He wouldn’t get too lonely.
Assad is the only ‘glue’ binding the nation presently. Without him...it’ll have to break up into a dozen smaller states, and probably make a bigger mess than it is presently. That said...why not ask the question of who would grant ISIS members asylum?
aaaah..... a crack with a glimmer of the future
Offering asylum to a dictator is very dangerous for the dictatorship. When Assads minions determine that he is going to eventually flee, they will want to be the first ones to the door.
Saves Russia some rubles.
I thought 2 years ago that Assad had a private jet idling at Damascus Airport, waiting to whisk him off to Moscow. I was wrong. Assad-love him, hate him, he is one double-tough SOB.
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Assad is just a figure head - he is a smart man but he is not the father. He was like a fill in when the chosen successor to Assad, senior died or some such.
It was his older brother. He died in a car accident. Bashar was actually rather involved in medicine until then.
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Yes, that was it. Thanks. Everyone calls Assad, jr this mass butcher but the guy was out of the family dictator business. In office he tried to reform some - everyone was saying this. But as with the Arab spring - you give an inch and relax secular dictator rules and the Muslim brotherhood types smell weakness and declare jihad.
Where Assad, jr gets props is that he did not flee to France at the first sign of trouble and stayed. It was kind of shaky there for a while and everyone including the CIA assumed he would be gone 'soon'. By sticking around it allowed the Ba'athists to figure out how to stay in power - but mostly it allowed the so called 'rebels' to show their true colors.
It was the rebels war to lose and they lost it when they embraced jihad barbarism and started producing horrific islamic murder videos - which I think they have to to prove their jihad bonafides to the ullemah or some such.
This is the "your ride is leaving" nudge.
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