Thanks elhombrelibre. The agitprop and troll activity around here has stepped up again, as you've no doubt noticed. Related topics and sidebars:
Maybe we're on the brink of Roo, the Old Switche- (that's how it's shown in the dictionary). Mostly I think Pooty-Poot's been pantsed (as predicted), digging himself and Russia in deeper and deeper, as has the Iranian mullahcracy, and Assad himself, the indispensible first cause of the Syrian civil war.
I doubt that the fighting will stop immediately after he leaves, or maybe ever. The map is likely to look more like Afghanistan than like even Lebanon.
Hezbollah will be in a longterm struggle after Assad falls, as Lebanon has at long last started to turn against it, and battlefield losses continue to pile up. Nasrallah is not a young guy, and his popularity has turned south within Hezbollah, with his talk of half of all its fighters may have to become martyrs to win it. That looks even worse for a volunteer organization than the estimated one-third loss among Syrian Alawite men of military age.
ISIS' sudden turn into the Shiite area/oil patch of Saudi Arabia will get some serious attention in the GCC. I doubt that it's a coincidence that it follows the gulf alliance whuppin' of the Iranian proxies in Yemen. The outcome of the struggle in the oil patch will be a factor as Israel figures out the timing for their strike on Iran.
