This is almost not news, mikey, sadly. It is right that you raise it of course. Was it not interesting to see that IS had recaptured Palmyra, in the midst of all this. Russians and Syrians alike fled when faced with actual fighters rather than defenceless women and children. One wonders how, if left to their own devices, the Syrian army would cope with trying to...
If you mean Putin, there are very few Russian ground forces in Syria (they're all in Ukraine!) They were going to send a force of Chechens, presumably as a sort of "police force" but the deplyoment leaked out on social media and it was canned.
Assad is relying on his own decimated army, and an assortment of Iranian militias.
Togo I neither ignored your reference to Iran nor revived it.
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I was not rubbishing your point, but saying that in my view that common view was not entirely correct. Or fair on the 'west'
The USA said Russia would fail in this very complex situation, Russia (Putin) has succeeded in saving 1000's of lives and showing the gullible how gullible they really are in 'real' life situations.
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