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wow. can someone speak to Syria's strategic importance to Russia? I can hypothesize some reasons but anyone with more context/knowledge would love to hear it 🤙

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+1 some ELI5 would be great

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Their only naval base in Mediterranean. And now they need to move all these ships to Baltic Sea (Kaliningrad), as Turkish straits to Black Sea are blocked for them by Turkey because of being at war with Ukraine.

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Ok. But it doesn’t mean like they are fucked, I mean Russia was never associated with the power that controls Middle East?

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Yeah this is a huge loss for Russia it goes to show that their airforce has been hurt by Ukraine pretty badly because they should have been able to bomb the hell outta the rebels and slow them down but that never occured

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Wromg.

Libya and a lot in Africa.

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Yea, help a brotha out. Why is Russia fuckedddddd ?

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I will write more about this expanding on it but here are some screenshots of an explanation of Russias logistics to Africa

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