A “political solution that protects civilians and infrastructure” and that “if the Assad regime has fallen then we welcome that news.”
Donald Trump, the US president-elect, responded to the events on his Truth Social platform by declaring: “Assad is gone.”
He has left the nation. Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Russia, Russia, his guardian, had lost interest in keeping him safe.
“Russia has no justification for being there in the first place. Because of Ukraine, where over 600,000 Russian servicemen are either dead.
Or injured in a conflict that should never have begun and might continue on indefinitely, they lost all interest in Syria.