Putin mass torturer and killer Bashar al-Assad engaged in a hug . . .Awww....
Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin welcomed grateful mass torturer and killer Bashar al-Assad in Sochi.
Putin did more than anyone to keep the butcher Assad in power.
Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, the Black Sea and a balcony corner of the Bocharov Ruchey State residence in Sochi, a favorite of the Kremlin head. You can also see one of Putin’s many luxury watches peeking out from under his shirt, this one perhaps a Blancpain $10,000 piece, one that is often spotted on his wrist, according to activists.
Yet the context is as important as the timing. On Wednesday Putin is due to welcome Iran’s Hassan Rouhani and Turkey Recip Tayyip Erdogan — a noticeably small list of guests that leaves out the US and Europe — to the same Black Sea resort to discuss a political settlement in Syria.
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That brave Syrians (at least those who are still alive) who took to the streets peacefully in 2011 to oppose Assad’s regime, only to be met with brutal repression, are now faced with a “settlement” imposed by these creeps makes me extremely sad.
Before I even read your comment I already had one along the same lines in my head and heart. Kind of like being captive, calling out for help and being ignored. That must be what helplessness feels like.
Kind of like? The US plays a roll in this as well - 'we' have watched a genocide unfold before our eyes ... a mass exodus of the Syrian people and still we did nothing, beyond calling for the removal of Assad!
Foreign fighters were flowing into Syria in 2011 (called Arab Spring spill over) through Turkey .. do not think anyone really knows how many were in the streets already at the time the conflict began ... Turkey supported the rebels and Daesh by allowing foreign fighters into Syria (interesting that Turkey is a NATO member - Erdogan is such a great guy). Russia would not even be in Syria. Putin wanted nothing to do with the conflict - Iran was already there, but not in great numbers. President Putin is not a great guy, nor is Assad .. yet the former President should have rolled up his sleeves and used his diplomacy to have a conversation with these 2 nasty men. Assad wanted to talk, but Obama said he would go it alone.
My opinion is not popular on this subject ... but were these other world leaders beneath President Obama? I get it, Crimea pissed the world off - Putin was Hitler plotting to make Russia great again (which actually Putin did put Russia back on the map) Yet annexing Crimea was not the same .. Syria was a different Beast and the US leadership should have been engaged, yet took the stance of "this is their fight"... and "Assad must go" [hash tag]!
Diplomacy is such an interesting word : ) ... as Foreign Policy is an interesting concept...
shutting up now!
Dictators have to stick together, no one else can stand them. I expect to see Trump in the picture in the very near future.