Russia says Bashar al-Assad has ‘stepped down and left Syria’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx89reeevgo

36 comments
  1. His family is in Russia. It has been confirmed earlier that they fled there. He may be headed to the UAE to transit to Russia later when things die down. Or he may be dead with the plane crash.

  2. “Step down” means there won’t be a government-in-exile, right?

  3. “Assad said through an intermediary that he had grown bored with running a country and decided to voluntarily step down and spend time with family and take up fly fishing.”

  4. So this means he was on one of two planes. One an airbus that landed in the UAE safely, but no reports of Assad. The other a military cargo plane flew all strange and disappeared, but no reports of a crash. 

  5. Is Russia running a retirement home for deposed dictators?

  6. Great serie of succeses in USRR restitution:
    – Georgia, Armenia and now Syria lost
    – Romania kicked out the russian spy
    – Sweden and Finland in Nato (lol)
    – Western markets for gas and oil lost
    – sanctions
    – > 700k men dead
    – economy collapse behind the corner
    – soviet gear stock almost empty
    – India started to buy weapons from the USA

    Ah, yes, they have atom bomb, fear the great tsar putin 😛

  7. Does he still get a pension for stepping down instead of being overthrown?

  8. we’ll just have to wait and see when he either pops out of a window, or we find out he did a Saddam Hussein and literally dug himself inside a hole.

  9. Stepped down and left? More like fled the scene with clenched butt cheeks.

  10. The best part of being a dictator is making off with the billions of dollars you looted from the treasury.

  11. “stepped down and left Syria” if you know what I mean …

  12. It’s very unprofessional to not stay and work out your final 2 weeks…..

  13. This would mean Syria is fully bankrupt. He will have taken every single penny with him to Moscow. Syria now will have huge issues producing enough electricity and water for the population. Everything will break down and not be repaired. Things will get way worse for the next 5-7 years. Then after that start improving.

  14. They also stated that Assad wants a peaceful transfer of power…. So he fought for 10 years just because he wanted a peaceful transfer of power?! That’s what I believed!

  15. Why would Russia report on Syrian news / politics 🤔?

  16. Any credible sources? Maybe someone who doesn’t lie about everything

  17. Stepped down….. interesting way of saying fled the country 

  18. Syria isn’t breaking up with Bashar. Bashar is breaking up with Syria.

  19. Like homeless dog with tail between its nutless crotch you meant.

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