Posted on 01/22/2025 4:20:18 AM PST by buwaya
On Monday, the new government of Syria canceled Russia's 49-year operating lease at the port of Tartus, bringing a multi-decade Russian naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean to a close. A military cargo ship that had been loitering just off the coast has now berthed at the Russian naval pier, where military vehicles are staged for a likely evacuation.
"According to the Director of Tartous Customs, the agreement signed with the Russian company to invest in Tartous Port has been canceled and all its revenues are now for the benefit of the Syrian state," reported local news agency Levant24.
I bet Russian sailors loved going to Syria and Venezuela, nice and warm.
I Googled this subject and it shows up in some foreign news outlets, but not our MSM. Odd, for our left should be jumping with joy.
I Googled this subject and it shows up in some foreign news outlets, but not our MSM. Odd, for our left should be jumping with joy.
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Why would the left be jumping for joy that Russia got kicked out of its Syrian port and can’t smuggle drugs anymore? Leftists love communist criminal regimes and smuggling drugs to prop up dictators and make oodles of money.
Putin’s would-be “New Russian Empire” is crumbling, and it’s beautiful to watch.
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Putin’s would-be “New Russian Empire” is crumbling, and it’s beautiful to watch.
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Well, the Left had high hopes for Putin until about 10 years ago he announced Russia would not return to the Soviet Union. Then they turned on him and here we are today.
Left? They don’t care.
This is good to neutral news across the board, unless you are Russian. And it may even be good news for Russians, because the whole involvement in Syria can be seen as a white elephant. A waste of resources for the sake of prestige alone.
US MSM doesn’t do a good job, what else is new. That’s why so much in FR comes from UK tabloids.
Russia should stop with Ukraine and focus on Turkey. And we should kick Turkey out of NATO. And then leave. C’mon Trump! It’s already day 3!
Russia should stop with Ukraine and focus on Turkey. And we should kick Turkey out of NATO. And then leave. C’mon Trump! It’s already day 3!
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There is hope for Turkey. It just needs to be willing to move out of the third world mindset.
” Turkey. It just needs to be willing to move out of the third world mindset. “
They’re muzzies. Ain’t happened in 1400 years. No shared values. Incompatible.
Slavers. Groomers. Killers.
It won’t be beautiful when the new Ottoman Empire rises, and moves on Europe, they haven’t forgotten The Battle Of Vienna.
Back on topic, it’s quite refreshing to see a country that KNOWS WHEN TO LEAVE a losing cause, rather than adding TRILLIONS in debt in pathetic “Nation Building”, just to be driven out anyway.
Not until Erdogen is gone.
What makes you think his successor will be any better?
I don’t, but he sucks. I merely said they will continue to be a third world shithole as long as he’s there. If the next guy is worse they will still continue to be a third world shithole.
The “European” part of Turkey is not third world, the “Asian” part is.
The European part is half of Constantinople in a country 50% larger than France, the largest country in Europe.
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