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2025-01-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Assassination attempt on Bashar al-Assad in Moscow

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Posted by Fred 2025-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top
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#1 Vlad: "Try the sushi"

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-03 01:04|| 2025-01-03 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia looms vast, an expanse that dwarfs understanding. To dismiss this truth is to dwell in ignorance. A man grapples with his fate—his beloved wife battles the cruel shadows of cancer, while he himself is ensnared in the sinister grip of poison.
This is not merely a tale; it is a narrative crafted in the twilight before the al-Assad dynasty metamorphoses, shedding its skin to emerge anew in another guise. Indeed, Russia is an immense land, a canvas upon which the grand and tragic stories of human existence unfold.

Posted by Cecilio 2025-01-03 03:31|| 2025-01-03 03:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Was it the KGB (or whatever they call themselves now) or Sunni terrorists of one or another flavour attempting the kill in solidarity?

Or the wife?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-03 04:04|| 2025-01-03 04:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably a gentle reminder from the FSB who's boss. Or the windows were stuck shut.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-03 06:25|| 2025-01-03 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he tried to poison himself; the last 20 years have been rough and the last 20 weeks even rougher.

Posted by Airandee 2025-01-03 07:03|| 2025-01-03 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6 #2 Wow, we have a writer. Well written.

Posted by Dale 2025-01-03 07:31|| 2025-01-03 07:31|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Figures you'd like him. That's ACA JOE

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-03 07:46|| 2025-01-03 07:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Really? Not ChatGPT?

Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-03 10:32|| 2025-01-03 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe one of his ex-patients. No one likes doctors these days.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-01-03 14:19|| 2025-01-03 14:19|| Front Page Top

#10 That's ACA JOE

#2 was ACA JOE? Unpossible! The post is reasonably literate, kind of makes sense, and contains absolutely no mention the Juice whatsoever. I'd bet a donut on ChatGPT.

As for Assad, more likely the Ukrainians or the wife. What would the Russians get out of it?

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-03 18:03|| 2025-01-03 18:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Just for fun, how about himself, angling for a free security/housekeeping upgrade?

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-03 18:57|| 2025-01-03 18:57|| Front Page Top

#12 #2 this great - you read like Tolstoy…

Posted by Alpha2c 2025-01-03 21:55|| 2025-01-03 21:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Vast nations, no, oceans of space
Over which, with a slow-moti9n grace,
["O infinite riddle...
though frighteningly little!"]
Float tardigrades. Great Russian race.

Goes without saying that I love (most) Russians and wish them well. And that it takes at least two to have a race, let alone a demolition derby.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-03 22:33|| 2025-01-03 22:33|| Front Page Top

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