Mick Hartley

Syria's Bashar Al-Assad has been visiting Russia. He's interviewed here on Russia's Sputnik News Agency:

The summary from MEMRI:

President Al-Assad said that the BRICS countries have begun distancing themselves from the U.S. and the Western “bloc” and that when an alternative to the U.S. dollar becomes available, the U.S. will no longer be able to control other countries’ economies. He also said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his “army of Nazis,” and the Islamist terrorists in the region are fighting “on behalf” of the West, and he claimed that the U.S. bases in Syria house terrorists which are deployed against Syrian regime forces. In addition, he said that Russia would be better able to “defend” itself if it expanded its military presence in Syria, and he explained that Russian bases in Syria should house advanced weapons, such as hypersonic missiles, in order to create deterrence and establish a global balance of power.

If it hadn't been for the US/UK invasion, we'd be seeing Saddam or perhaps his psychopathic son Uday standing shoulder to shoulder now with his fellow mass-murdering Baathist-in-arms. Just a thought as we read all the hand-wringing on the 20th anniversary…