🇸🇾🇷🇺 #SYRIA WEAKER WITHOUT RELIABLE PARTNER SUCH AS #RUSSIA: With Russia embroiled in its own brotherly war in Ukraine - is it any wonder the U.S. saw an opportunity to finally take down the Assad government?

"Russia will continue to provide support to the people of Syria if necessary, but the Syrians will have to cope with a full-scale civil war on their own" - Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev (pictured.)

Reminder that the Russian 2015 - 2017 campaign in Syria, (on official invitation by the #legitimate Syrian President Assad) exterminated thousands of U.S, Western & Turkey-backed militants to achieve a ceasefire.

Known back then as "#moderate rebels", what was left of the groups have now rebranded and are, once again, being sold by global media as freedom fighters...can't they get a new playbook?

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