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| Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war |
| 2022-04-21 |
More about the cannon fodder. [AnNahar] During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating gunnies in the country's long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future." Now members of Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan's division are among hundreds of Russian-trained Syrian fighters who have reportedly signed up to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, including Syrian soldiers, former rebels and experienced fighters who fought for years against the Islamic State |
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