US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday mentioned Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled his nation and his protector, Russia led by Vladimir Putin, “was not all for 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 useless”.
“Russia and Iran are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a nasty economic system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success,” he added.
Trump says Russia deserted Syria’s President Bashar
Trump mentioned 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 conflict 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 all for 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 conflict that ought to by no means have began, and will go on perpetually.”
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Trump, who takes workplace on Jan. 20, added that Russia and Iran, Assad’s different fundamental backer, “are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a nasty economic system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success”.
Trump, who has mentioned he’ll search to halt the Ukraine conflict 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 mentioned Russia and Ukraine had each suffered lots of of hundreds of useless and wounded troops, and Ukraine had additionally misplaced many civilians. He added the Ukrainian chief “wish to make a deal and cease the insanity … There ought to be a right away ceasefire and negotiations ought to start”.
“I do know Vladimir effectively. That is his time to behave. China might help. The World is ready!”
