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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern border. And wow, yeah, all that serious stuff. Well, that happened quickly.

I really didn't expect it to happen that fast.

And, of course, Ukraine war is still continuing, but, well, I think this time we're going

to be focusing on Syria again because, well, the military campaign there cost Russia

many billions of dollars.

Hundreds of Russian military personnel

have died there, and in the end Moscow now has one semi-talented ophthalmologist and his family.

And of course, well, let's just say that not all Zed authors are particularly happy with

these results. Starshi Eddi, or older than the Edda, writes,

It will be extremely sad if the main outcome of our 10-year campaign in Syria is only that

Assad and his family were evacuated to Moscow. On the other hand, negative experience is also

experience, and history teaches us that if you want to build or rebuild an empire, you should

start from the safety of your own borders, gradually and progressively expanding the sphere of

influence, forging a new army in the crucible of battles and raising talented military leaders.

The problem is that raising talented military leaders can't really happen in Russia right now and in general.

None of this is very much applicable.

Romano Ljokin comments,

Assad and his family are in Moscow.

They have been granted asylum.

I just wonder, what is the purpose of gathering here all those who spend the money of the Russians,

not to strengthen the Russian world, but for themselves?

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