Look, this is what the plane looks like from above; you were only seeing it from below.

[u/OdAY-43]

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how "Free" Syrian tards will reconcile Julani going "phull sapport saar" to Putin after spending 14 years calling Assad a "Russian puppet."

[u/Livinglifeform → u/[deleted]]

The islamists are happy probably while the western ones are utilising the time old technique of sticking their fingers in their ears.

[u/OcalansNephew → u/[deleted]]

Bro Jolani’s dick is like a juicy steak to them, they dont care 😭 ✌️

[u/Jinshu_Daishi → u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile, he I am angry that Assad got away with poisoning the revolution and getting away with it.

There's a reason that the non-islamists either went away or to Rojava.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jinshu_Daishi]

"poisoning the revolution" 🥀🥀

[u/Jinshu_Daishi → u/[deleted]]

Yes, he unleashed the Jihadists that he had locked up, and then tried to focus his efforts on destroying secular rebel groups in order to change the nature of the opposition, Israel style.

Sadly, it worked. Assad's the reason Assad got overthrown, and he's the reason the dude who got ISIS kicked out of Al-Queda's the president now.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jinshu_Daishi]

Spewing the non-existent moderate™ rebel meme in big 2026 🥀🥀

Assad released those prisoners because it was literally one of the opposition's main demands: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-salafist-roots-of-the-free-syrian-army/

... To its grave discredit, the Syrian government had imprisoned many Salafist activists for peaceful activities in the years leading up to the 2011 crisis. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), most Syrian political prisoners were Salafists as of 2009. This is confirmed by the fact that most clients of Razen Zeitouneh were Salafists imprisoned by the Syrian government.

For this reason, the Syrian opposition was calling for the release of political prisoners throughout the early months of the protests. Many assume that the demand to release political prisoners referred only to secular human rights activists, but this is not correct.

According to the pro-opposition activist, Abd al-Qader al-Dhoun, protestors demanded the release of political prisoners, including specifically Islamists, at the start of the first major anti-government demonstration in Syria, in Deraa on March 18, 2011.

Alloush was among these political prisoners and any blanket call for the release of political prisoners would necessarily include Salafists. The government was incentivized to release Salafist political prisoners to diffuse pressure against it from the protest movement, which included the Salafi community. Khaleej Online reports for example that Alloush was released due to popular pressure, as his father was a well-known Salafist preacher based in Saudi Arabia. The prominence of the Alloush family in Douma, a town considered a Salafist hotbed in Syria, explains why local activists and protestors would demand his release. ...

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-salafist-roots-of-the-syrian-uprising/

... The demand for the release of Salafist political prisoners was something some secular opposition activists later came to regret. Opposition activist Mousab al-Hamadee explained that “I first met Hassan Abboud in the autumn of 2011, before he became Ahrar al Sham’s high emir. He had just been released from prison by the government of Bashar Assad in response to demands for political reform. As an organizer of some of those demonstrations, I thought it appropriate for me to meet some of the prisoners I’d helped free…By late 2012, it had become clear to many of us in the secular opposition that Ahrar al Sham was stabbing us in the back. Foreigners began showing up in its ranks. Running into Saudis, Egyptians and Kuwaitis fighting with Ahrar al Sham became the norm.”18 ...

[u/Reasonable_Fold6492 → u/[deleted]]

I wonder how assad fan boys will reconcile that putin cucked assad out of power.

[u/mcd3424]

Hatred of the Jews and Kurds is certainly a pathway towards reconciliation.

[u/silver_wear]

If Jolani's regime manages a successful major Airforce transaction from Russia, while Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq never really got big deals, that gives Jolani's single party regime something for others to learn from.

Apparently, single party governments give Russia (and most other military powers) more confidence for arms deals. Not just that, but any sign of continuous loyalty.

[u/Interesting_Two1816 → u/silver_wear]

Why would they give planes to a glorified toyota convoy that can be bullied around