Syrien: Russland zieht Truppen aus Syrien zurück
https://www.zeit.de/video/2024-12/6366054171112/syrien-russland-zieht-truppen-aus-syrien-zurueck?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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*#Syria: The #Islamist tail wags the #Kremlin dog again:*
#Russia's military position in #Syria has become untenable: it has to withdraw its troops in a hurry.
This is reminiscent of the #Soviet flight from #Afghanistan in 1988/89, when the #mujahideen de facto forced the #RedArmee to flee from that country. OFC it was also termed a "withdrawal..."
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![“Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan”. Last Soviet troop column crosses Soviet border [over the infamous #FriendshipBridge"] after leaving Afghanistan.
Banner reads: "Слава солдатам отечества! Слава сынам!" ("Glory to the soldiers of the fatherland! Glory to the sons of the motherland!")"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan?wprov=sfla1](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/662/502/136/582/694/original/083865a334e42c85.jpg)
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...back then, but it also left an important ally of the #Russian empire, then calked the #SovietUnion, without #Kremlin support forces.
Time and again the "Greater Middle East" proves to be a region that is too hot to handle for the impotent #Russian forces.
And once again, #Islamist rebels prove to be the death knell of the death knell of the #Kremlin's imperial...
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...aspirations.
On the face of it, for now, #Putin is bound to lose the strategically important only Mediterranean naval base. In other regions, where the #Kremlin has stationed RF forces, the boot of the invader on the local people's neck might begin to feel a bit lighter, as in #Georgia, where a political coup by the #Russian...
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Dubbed screenshot from #RussianTV
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...supported ruling party is strongly opposed by the people in the street.
In retrospect, the flight from #Afghanistan can be seen as strong evidence for the crumbling #Soviet empire. With hindsight, the #Syrian debacle might be a similar pivotal moment in time for the Kremlin regime of the #RussianFederation.
Arguably, #Russia's current economic situation might already be worse...
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...than the #SovietUnion's at the end of the First #ColdWar, hit by the aftermath of the #Chernobyl disaster. A crippling interest rate of 21%, intended to stifle rampant inflation and to prop up the #Kremlin's ailing currency , huge external debts (AFAIC mostly in Chinese RMB,) and the staggering cost of the #WarInUkraine could lead up to...
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...what several pundits have long expected: a breakup of the #RussianFederation.
Time will tell, but tathersooner than later, I guess.
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