Posted on 07/05/2025 9:23:19 AM PDT by RandFan
DAMASCUS, Syria -- British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met in Damascus on Saturday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa to discuss boosting cooperation, after the U.K. began lifting sanctions against Syria.
Syria has been improving relations with Western countries following the fall of President Bashar Assad in December in an offensive led by al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group.
Al-Sharaa’s office said Lammy and the president discussed mutual relations and ways of boosting cooperation and the latest regional and international developments. Lammy later met his Syrian counterpart, Asaad al-Shibani, state media reported.
In April, the British government lifted sanctions against a dozen Syrian entities, including government departments and media outlets, to help the country rebuild after Assad's ouster. Weeks earlier the U.K. had dropped sanctions against two dozen Syrian businesses, mostly banks and oil companies.
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I'll be amazed if this guy doesn't stay in power forever he seems to have their blessing
It’s ok with the UK that they were crucifying Christians. So long as they got access to the Syrian oil fields, and Assad was booted out along with the Russians. Win win. Like the UK can afford to rebuild shit anymore.
The goal was to eliminate Assad, and create chaos/weakness in Syria to make it easily controlled and never an organized threat, either strategically or ideologically in the mid-east and Arab world.
That has been achieved.
Syria is being given a great opportunity and could be a turning point in the mideast if they pursue a economic relationship to the west. It could go bad but president Trump is eliminating lots of other choices. No iran, Russia or China to play off of
The UK’s Deep State can still afford to meddle.
Abd that’s the purpose of this visit.
Kubrick needed a bombed out locale to shoot the intense fighting around Hue in Full Metal Jacket, and thought about Detroit, but didn’t want locals getting involved with their 9s, so he chose Beckton Gas Works in London.
I think it has been re-developed since then: low income housing—”estates”—for Mohamheads?
England’s problems are Children of Men-tier at this point, like France, Germany.
“ I’ll be amazed if this guy doesn’t stay in power forever he seems to have their blessing”
He will become a Shah. A new Deep State outpost.
The Syrian leader is going to have to handle his "thugs" on his team. They're like a bunch of pit bulls. He will have to show that he's the "alpha". If they're too aggressive and out of control, they'll scare off western support and eventually they'll get sanctioned again.
Same overweight black guy who accused Trump of being a member of the KKK before Trump won?
They’re recognizing him anyway. He must be a different flavored terrorist.. /s or there is something truly different
You are correct.
You’re an idiot.
The ME is changing for the better because of Trump and you can’t see it.
What a Fool.
“The Syrian leader is going to have to handle his “thugs” on his team. They’re like a bunch of pit bulls. He will have to show that he’s the “alpha”.”
He’s ISIS...but now he’s our boy.
Syria is an Islamic Hellhole ruled by literal terrorists.
Under Assad, Syrian Christians and the Druze were protected. Women were treated as human beings. Assad was the ideal ruler because he was secular.
It sickens me how many Westerners celebrated the fall of Assad. They also celebrated the mass slaughter of Christians, Druze and Alawites. They beamed proudly as Syrian women were forced to don the dehumanizing and hot garbage bags (hijabs).
It’s absolutely sickening how many freepers (mostly Zeepers) celebrate the fact that Al-Qaeda and ISIS govern Syria. It’s positively satanic.
Long live Assad and SHAME on the UK, although it’s not surprising considering that the UK is practically controlled by Sharia Law.
The trouble with this logic is that Al-Sharaa is not just surrounded by thugs, but as a former Al Quaeda commander himself, he is a thug.
His current polite and civilized act is just that - an act. Once he gets the money and arms that he wants from the US, he and his minions will be back to chopping the heads off of non-Muslims and for that matter fellow Muslims of different sects. It amazes me that people are unable to see through the charade, because we've seen it many times before.
His alternatives are dealing with Russia and Iran. He's not going to want to do that because he was fighting them.
So it makes sense for him to put on a suit and make a deal with the Americans.
He’ll make a deal with the US, and once he gets the money and arms he needs, he’ll be back to pushing the Al Quaeda agenda. Trump lifting sanctions on Syria under Al-Sharaa was a bad case of hugging a tar baby. Let the Gulf oil states bankroll and arm him if they want, as long as he doesn’t start causing problems for us.
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