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Fall of the Assad dynasty (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] Mr_Blott 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's a right creepy looking fucker isn't he? Like a wee boy squished into a 1970s carpet salesman's body

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Always with too short trousers too.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

His voice is also a very strange and distinctive lisp

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He has been held in power by the Russians since 2010 or so. Guess they are occupied elsewhere these days.

[–] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

The UK born wife and kids are in Russia, presumably je will head there via... somewhere and has a stash of cash available

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Stupid nepo baby got wrecked...

Boohoo

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I forsee something like egypt happening, the "opposition" forces have a lot of islamists, and they're going to have to deal with ISIL and the Kurds so, that's going to cause a lot of further conflicts.