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I don’t know if this was posted on this forum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11274281/Assad-regime-executes-131-detainees-infected-with-the-plague.html

This seems so bad per the Assad regime as well, what kind of living conditions??

And if Syria is a true ally of Iran and Iran has some evil plans, I guess Assad is better than the rebels but all of those sides are pitiful. Of course, ISIS should be vaporized they are so evil.

Yeah, that doesn’t look encouraging for Assad and all his thugs and shills.

His problem becomes finding manpower; his Alawite core isn’t all working directly for him. The approach the regime took early on was to turn weapons and responsibilities to the local henchmen, and he’s entirely reliant on outside aid to keep food on the tables and bullets in the guns. The civil war has been one of attrition, and in the nationwide turmoil there’s simply no way to skin off any more conscripts.

So, as they die, there is no fill behind.

FTM, as they flee, there is no fill behind.

He’ll have to make a decision, soon, whether he’ll continue to watch his remaining dictatorship get whittled away, while 19000 Iranian thugs and thousands more Hizzie proxy thugs continue to rule their own enclaves as the Iranian mullahcracy continues to foster dependence.

His options don’t include finding rebels to treat with — even if they trusted him, he isn’t really interested in anything but a return to the way things were. Those days are gone.

If he wants out, he can make sure his own are quietly moved over to the edge of the board, then join them, and they make a run for it. Most likely the Iranians don’t want him to leave, so his ride will have to be with the Russians. The Russians conducted evacuations such as they could, in 2012, and again in 2013.

The only other possible option would be to make peace with the Israelis and make alliance with them to defeat the rebels, the Hizzies, and the Iranians. That’s about as likely as a two foot snowfall in Damascus.