Bashar Assad’s Regime Overthrown: Another Dictator Loses Power

December 8, 2024January 22, 2026

Bashar Assad’s regime overthrown and it relegated to history. Rebel forces completely captured Damascus, and it seems this happened much faster than in Homs, Hama and Aleppo. As far as we can understand, they noted no particular battles within the city limits. A domino effect worked. Numerous videos already exist from the Syrian army general staff premises, government buildings and city center where rebels now stand. Damascus airport stopped operating after several aircraft departed, one of which allegedly carried Assad himself. Syrian Central Television interrupted its broadcast and rebels’ statement went on air announcing that Assad’s regime ceased to exist.

Rebels already reported that Assad’s power ended and called on all those who remained in territories where rebels haven’t reached — to peacefully lay down weapons and not resist, since there’s nothing left to defend. Everywhere rebels enter, prisons open and regime prisoners emerge, who accumulated in huge numbers. No doubt most of them will join their liberators and the scraps of Assad’s regime simply have no chance in confrontation with them.

Syria’s Prime Minister Offers Cooperation

Syria’s prime minister stated he’s ready to cooperate with any authority to smoothly transfer governance in the country with minimal losses for society. Probably right now in Damascus they’re determining which path the country will take further. As far as we can understand, none of the neighbors want the country’s collapse into separate bantustans and therefore the bloody era of Assadites, which lasted 53 years, stayed behind, collapsing in less than a week, and another begins, and we’ll see what it will be like.

Well, the real questions relate to how and how quickly the Orcs¹ will fuck off from their military bases. Obviously, after liberating Damascus, rebels have more than enough forces and means to arrange a reckoning for the Orcs who tried to bomb them starting from the battles in Aleppo. Most likely, the Orcs understand that no one forgot the crimes they committed on Syrian soil since 2015 and they won’t be forgiven for this. And therefore sitting at their bases won’t work anymore, since a cleanup team will definitely come to them to settle scores.

The Orcs Face an Impossible Defense

And to defend their assets specifically from a ground attack, they lack both forces and means. Even if they transferred several thousand bayonets there, in this situation they simply have no chance. After Assad’s regime collapsed, they lost specifically the ground cover of government troops. And the weapons available at Khmeimim airbase prove absolutely useless for defending the base itself. They’re suitable for destroying large, stationary objects, for example — hospitals, as they did for almost 10 years of their presence and what they demonstrated this week, but fighting with bombs and missiles against highly mobile groups — useless in principle. Same goes for Tartus port.

In such a situation they need to fuck off as quickly as possible while the window of opportunity hasn’t closed yet. But it’s already obvious that evacuating everything they dragged by sea for years simply won’t work in a few days no matter how much they want. Therefore, most of the material and technical assets worth billions of dollars will have to either be destroyed or simply abandoned, as Assad’s army did. In that case, the Orcs will provide rebels with simply unprecedented trophies.

Rebels Already Armed to the Teeth

We should understand that rebels already captured a gigantic amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition. They represent a well-equipped military force. Yes, they still need to master some weapons in terms of operating them, but most likely people will be found there or appear who can quickly conduct specialist training courses. After all, in Idlib before the operation began, an officer school actively operated along with several junior command staff training courses.

And there someone very experienced organized separate drone operator courses. We won’t point fingers, although we guess who it was. So specialist training courses for trophy weapons will be organized there quickly and productively. You can’t even doubt this. Instructors will pull up there and do everything in the best way, as long as new military forces strangle everything connected with Iran and russia.

Now we’re talking about what they transferred to Assad’s troops and a small amount of weapons that small groupings of russian troops abandoned. But what sits in warehouses in Khmeimim and Tartus and what they didn’t give to Assadites has much greater value. If it falls into rebels’ hands, the situation will change immediately in several areas. Plus, these devices will definitely end up in the USA and Turkey. Therefore it’s logical to assume that they’ll try to take the most valuable and not very bulky items to the Swamps², and what they’ll do with the rest — that’s the question.

From Bravado to Acceptance Overnight

Literally yesterday-the day before, the Orcs cheerfully wrote that their forces — oh-ho and that right now they’ll determine how to transfer them there and will again hold concerts in Palmyra celebrating their next victory over Syrian opposition. And here — bam, demonstration of impotence. Actually, we’re talking not about assistance but about evacuation. And already this morning the “acceptance” stage arrived there.

They just demonstrated that no matter how bloody and harsh a dictator is, even the most hardcore henchmen get tired of him. And if the cards fall the right way, overthrowing a dictator can happen almost instantly. If someone thinks everything in Syria happened too quickly, this isn’t even the highest speed yet. If Prigozhin hadn’t backed down in 2023, the same thing would have happened, but much faster. So everything’s still ahead here. Bashar Assad’s regime overthrown in less than a week proves that even decades-old dictatorships can crumble when their support evaporates.

¹Orcs – a common term for Russians who support or participate in the armed aggression against Ukraine. Dehumanizing? Yes. Accurate? Also yes.

²Swamps – an ironic name for Russia, emphasizing decay, stagnation, and filth. The Commander of the USF, Robert Browdie, and most soldiers use this word.