Little By Little...

 ... new details emerge how Assad, for all his failures, was basically sabotaged by the hodgepodge power elite with Alawites at its core, who loved their privileges and big stars of useless generals. And, allegedly, declined power sharing proposal. Russian ships moved about about 4 nautical miles to the sea and are anchored there waiting for dust to settle--it is about the range of the longest ATGMs, that's why such distance, after that they will come back and negotiations about Russian bases will start. As Vladimir Putin said in 2015--"We cannot be more Syrian than Syrians themselves". Per SAA--my description of SAA are being confirmed hourly--a demoralized force since 2015 with low combat value and corrupt generals. The only combat worthy formation of SAA "Tiger" Brigade originated as the private military unit. It got incorporated into SAA. And once those factors begin to be considered--the hysterical reaction of emotional wrecks to all this becomes utterly unreasonable. Meanwhile HTS already stated that it will defend Russian bases and is ready to negotiate on them. Geopolitics is a business of grown-ups who pursue the interests of their OWN people. And before I declare this threat and Open one, I want to reiterate what I spoke about in this blog since 2015--Russia was not in Syria to defend Syrian political system, this was at best a secondary consideration. Iran got hurt, though.