With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare

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1. Let’s not let the old grandfather fulfill his dream of ruling the whole world.

2. Uhm, has The Guardian forgot that a Kremlin asset has just been elected president of the first world power for the second time? It’s not that Syria is that important to him now that he has the Trump-Musk duo on his side, bolstering far right Russia friendly parties in Europe and any kind of fascist insane scheme.

3. I mean, the longer Putin’s army is stuck in Ukraine, the worse it gets for them. Zoom out and look at the bigger picture since the Ukraine war started:

   * Finland and Sweden joined NATO;
   * the Russian economy is declining;
   * Putin lost Syria in a week;
   * Israel marched into Palestine and South Lebanon, waging war against Iran’s (an ally of Russia) proxies;
   * Europe has drastically reduced its reliance on Russian energy;
   * Russia has lost a lot of influence in Central Asia.

   At this rate, I’m wondering if the US really wants the war to stop because it seems the longer it goes on, the weaker Russia becomes.

4. Syria and Ukraine have badly exposed the Russian regime for what it is, a kleptocratic petrostate.

   Where post-Soviet Russia has been successful is through misinformation campaigns to install Russia sympathetic leaders particularly in ex Soviet countries, but the invasion of Ukraine in particular has highlighted that Russia is a spent force militarily and pushed its “sphere of influence” towards Europe and NATO.

   With Syria Russian allied despots are going to be looking over their shoulder given Putin has proven he can’t protect them against any potential uptising.

   In short the invasion of Ukraine is an unmitigated disaster for Russia and the West has a serious opportunity to finish the Putin regime if it continues to fund Ukraine long enough for Russia to reach economic oblivion.

5. This might be too optimistic. Russia is having many unfortunate victories in this regard, the most notable being the victory over the United States. As he has shown, Elon Musk is now keen on sabotaging the European political theatre in favour of parties aligning with pro-Russian interests. While Putin may have lost one Syria, he has also aligned the world’s most powerful economy and military to his interests.

   This is much more quickly becoming everyone’s nightmare rather than his own. While he is severely damaging his own nation, possibly irreparably, he is also dealing heavy blows to nations over several continents, with well thought-out propaganda machinery doing the bulk of his work.

   If his plans come to any sort of fruition, he may be able to repair his own country’s systems with the spoils of hybrid war. Articles such as these risk complacency in the mindset of the people still up for grabs.

6. Half of Africa is still very much under Putin’s thumb. Until we stop these military coups from happening there that are backed by Russia, the trade partners will always be there for them to sustain themselves

7. Russians, it seems to me, somehow have a tendency to extremely overestimate themselves. Lenin made the same mistake when he thought russia was strong enough to go through with a successful transformation to communism – did not work either. 

8. Don’t forget Sudan, Ooh, did it go to shit there for Ruzzia as well? 😳

   Maybe time to head back to Mordor.

9. I don’t mind if this dream turns into a nightmare for him.

10. Anyone who dreams of world domination should be sent straight into the sun

11. He’s got the two morons Trump and Musk ready to set everything on fire

12. fafo

13. Except that’s never been his dream…goodgrief

14. Criminal allways sooner ot later loose the game

15. West could help with this. Maduro, wanker’s Africa corps, Houthis, Eritrea, rest of the wanker controlled Libya could be shaken a bit with some coordinated “accidents”. Belarus protested few years ago – why not again, and Georgia is already having a party.

    Little bit of spices into tea or a leaking gas pipe could make big impact. Of course sometimes it’s best just give some toys to opposition.

16. Aww, is Putie not having a mewwy chwistmas?

17. If it ever depended on Asad. But surely I hope, and feel, dictators and black hearted leaders are fighting for power, cuz it’s slipping away. Maybe I’m wrong but somedays I feel like the good is winning, even if it doesn’t look like it.

18. This is just one step ahead. Europe must understand that the russians are putting the far right into position in a lot of european countries. This must be also stopped otherwise the russian nazis will divide and conquer us

19. Imperial over stretch. He cant fund an empire. He can give handouts but that is it. He has nothing to offer in the long run.

20. I think Putin’s just attacking as much as he can right now because they’ve concocted a plan with Trump where once Trump is in office he’s going to try and force Ukraine to accept a ceasefire so Putin can keep all the land he’s currently taken

21. Not a problem, Putin’s puppets in the US will make sure he will succeed either way..

22. Putler is salty about the fall of the USSR.

23. I’ve begun to hate opinion articles, in no small part due to Reddit and the US election, they just feel deceptive and dishonest to me now.

24. Who ever wrote this headline must explain how the hell a $1.5 trillion dollar economy is going to dominate $30 trillion dollars USA and $25 trillion dollars Chinese economy?

25. Bro looks like Roger from American dad in that picture..

26. Look at that evil fool America just elected, he’s already threatening to annex parts of Panama. I’m sure he will help Putin get whatever he wants. What a pathetic state of affairs for America

27. That’s practically old news by this point. People like Mark Reicher have been saying this for quite a while, being constantly accused of bending facts to suit their narrative, only to be proven right in the end.

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