SYRIA - In the end there was no final stand or fearsome battle to salvage the regime — instead, the dictator’s soldiers left their weapons and fled. Just about the time Bashar al-Assad was packing his bags and preparing to flee Damascus, Syrian state television was playing Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake on loop. The president’s office said he was busy with “constitutional tasks”.
There seemed little to worry about for a man who has made a brutal habit of survival. His military had pledged it would defend the capital with a “ring of steel” while Assad’s backers in Russia and Iran vowed not abandon an ally who, for all intents and purposes, appeared ready to go down fighting. By dawn on Sunday, however, the dictator, his British wife, Asma, and their children had disappeared. Damascus had fallen and, after ruling Syria for 24 years, Assad had been removed in just 24 hours.
There were no Russian airstrikes to strengthen their morale, no Russian muscle, no Russian intelligence operation. Nor did Hezbollah units spring to Assad’s defence as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and affiliated opposition groupings swooped from the north and the south.
Russia and Iran had promised to send their support to Assad but by then it was too late. There was no great battle for Damascus, no final stand by Assad as the political dynasty that ruled Syria for more than 50 years unravelled in a night.
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