Assad is paying dearly for this “rule”. He rules sht. He is just a puppet figure with Iran using his people and his land to get it bombed by Israel. Iranians are there to tell him what to do and Russians are there to tell him what not to do, putting a veto on it. Syria and Assad are a joke # fake news # fake nation # fake leader
Could have been worse. Could have been lynched by a howling mob like his Libyan counterpart or forced into obscure and ignonominous exile in some Russian dacha. Besides, unlike the western powers, Russia doesn’t give a shit how a country is run internally as long as it serves their interests. America does at least have to pay lip service to trying to make its allies and client states observe basic minimum standards of human rights wheras Russia couldn’t care if its ally ruled his own people like a depraved, perverted and rapacious medieval warlord.