Libya: Russian dolls | EUROtoday

Bachar el-Assad fled his nation aboard a Russian airplane, taking on residence in Moscow which ought to grant him Russian diplomatic asylum. Consequence: the Russian forces which had two navy bases in Syria – one naval in Tartous and a second, air, in Hmeimim – are packing up. With the top of the Alawite dictatorship, overthrown by a camarilla of Islamist nationalists (Hayat Tahrir el-Sham) and disparate allies, united “All against Assad”, the agreements between Assad and Putin eight years in the past are unraveled. The Russian planes which steadily bombed the rebels couldn’t stay within the space, resilience was at its limits, they wanted a number nation. In the worthy custom of Russian dolls, the primary matryoshka offers approach to a second, costlier…