Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad.
This was the high point of Putin’s hubris.
Nemesis arrived this morning when Russian forces hastily evacuated Palmyra as Assad’s regime fell apart.
This message is from a Russian military blogger.
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