Russia Retreats — as in Slinks — From Syria, Hoping To Avoid America’s Spectacle of Surrender in Afghanistan
‘Now we need to proceed from the realities that exist on the ground,’ says a spokesman for the Kremlin.
While most Syrians were at Friday prayers yesterday, convoys of Russian soldiers and their armored personnel carriers converged on Russia’s coastal air base for flights home. In one of several convoy videos posted online, Syrian rebels could be seen jeering and holding up the soles of their boots — an insult in the Arab world.
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