US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday stated Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled his nation and his protector, Russia led by Vladimir Putin, “was not thinking about defending him any longer”.
Taking to social media platform Fact Social, Trump wrote that Russia “misplaced all curiosity in Syria due to Ukraine, the place near 600,000 Russian troopers lay wounded or lifeless”.
“Russia and Iran are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a foul economic system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success,” he added.
Trump says Russia deserted Syria’s President Bashar
Trump stated on Sunday that Russia’s abandonment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led to his downfall, including Moscow by no means ought to have protected him within the first place after which misplaced curiosity due to a warfare in Ukraine that by no means ought to have began.
“Assad is gone. He has fled his nation. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not thinking about defending him any longer,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Fact Social.
“There was no cause for Russia to be there within the first place,” Trump wrote. “They misplaced all curiosity in Syria due to Ukraine … a warfare that ought to by no means have began, and will go on eternally.”
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Trump, who takes workplace on Jan. 20, added that Russia and Iran, Assad’s different foremost backer, “are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a foul economic system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success”.
Trump, who has stated he’ll search to halt the Ukraine warfare quickly, met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday in Paris the place they have been each attending a ceremony to reopen Notre-Dame Cathedral.
He stated Russia and Ukraine had each suffered a whole bunch of 1000’s of lifeless and wounded troops, and Ukraine had additionally misplaced many civilians. He added the Ukrainian chief “want to make a deal and cease the insanity … There must be a direct ceasefire and negotiations ought to start”.
“I do know Vladimir nicely. That is his time to behave. China can assist. The World is ready!”
