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Syria's New Government Cancels Russian Port Lease at Tartus
The Maritime Executive ^ | 1/21/2025 | The Maritime Executive

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.


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1 posted on 01/22/2025 4:20:18 AM PST by buwaya
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I bet Russian sailors loved going to Syria and Venezuela, nice and warm.


2 posted on 01/22/2025 4:27:19 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: buwaya

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.


3 posted on 01/22/2025 4:46:31 AM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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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.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 4:54:37 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: buwaya

Putin’s would-be “New Russian Empire” is crumbling, and it’s beautiful to watch.

:)


5 posted on 01/22/2025 4:59:05 AM PST by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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To: buwaya

Putin’s would-be “New Russian Empire” is crumbling, and it’s beautiful to watch.

:)


6 posted on 01/22/2025 4:59:05 AM PST by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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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.

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.

7 posted on 01/22/2025 5:00:38 AM PST by fso301
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To: redfreedom

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.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 5:00:48 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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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!


9 posted on 01/22/2025 5:10:24 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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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.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 5:24:24 AM PST by yldstrk
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” 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.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 6:19:29 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: Doctor Congo


"Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Havana, where the sun is warm, and so is the...comradeship. A great day, comrades. We sail into history."
12 posted on 01/22/2025 6:24:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It won’t be beautiful when the new Ottoman Empire rises, and moves on Europe, they haven’t forgotten The Battle Of Vienna.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 6:25:15 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 6:27:41 AM PST by BobL
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To: yldstrk

Not until Erdogen is gone.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 6:36:33 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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What makes you think his successor will be any better?


16 posted on 01/22/2025 6:38:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


17 posted on 01/22/2025 6:41:28 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

The “European” part of Turkey is not third world, the “Asian” part is.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 6:43:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The European part is half of Constantinople in a country 50% larger than France, the largest country in Europe.


19 posted on 01/22/2025 6:48:39 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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Make no mistake, Turkey wants Crimea, and wants a weakened Russia. That's the only reason they are in NATO. And once Russia is weakened, the chains will be removed from the Turks.
20 posted on 01/22/2025 6:54:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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