The damage Russia does is demonstrable in the chaos left behind in Syria

[@andrewwhite3793]

If HTS allows Russia to keep their bases after what they have done to the Syrian people then the West should walk away. Why should we help out if Russia cossies up to HTS

[@ZiGGi03]

Yeah agreed . Ukrine also are sending food to Syria to help the hunger crisis there . I assume the Syrian government know Russia was bombing them and are only talking to them as a courtesy to Turkey who helped the rebels . The government know the west is a more prosperous way . Plus the Russian killed tens of thousands bombed the hospital’s after getting the information from the UN then they struck them. They are a disgrace so I have hope they won’t be able to keep these bases and the port I don’t see it happening to be honest in my opinion . The Russians were allowed to leave because turkey told the rebels to just let them leave . So we shall see we can only see what they do then we can talk about that. .

[@milerale5286]

West did more damage for helping ISIS

[@Robert-xy4xi]

Syria is being carved up! HTS who were extremists only a few weeks ago, Russia have made a deal with HTS for the time being Russia will hold the bases in the west of Syria. Turkey who don't like the Kurds and the US funds the Kurds. Turkey is happy for Russia to stay, because it gives Turkey political leverage on the US.

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

Well observed

[@andrewwarren4206]

I don't like banana milkshake. Seems like a perfectly good use.

[@BrianWatts-i1b]

Thank you again!

[@matbritton6816]

Can we also acknowledge the mess left in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, etc., etc.?

[@markgarner8405]

The Press have spoken to Assad this moring in moscow, Assad said he wanted to stay and fight the rebels but ruzzia evacuated him! what does that say about the military state of ruzzia? about on there knees but wont admit it!

[@richardpiper4828]

I cannot help but think that Putin believes that it is useful to hold Assad hostage as a negotiating chip. Could he be offered up to the new Syrian regime to curry favour and in exchange for Russia to continue to operate their naval and air bases? Assad is now out lived his usefulness and is on borrowed time. Putin won’t want the embarrassment of Assad and his family hanging (probably the wrong metaphor) around.

[@markgarner8405]

​@@richardpiper4828 you make some good points! putin wants the bases in Syria still but watching some videos of the rebels heckling the ruzzians makes me think they wont be welcome back. Looks like Israel stuck the ruzzian naval port last night or near the port and the rebels want Assad back to face trial , fun times ahead!

[@BernardMorrey]

Chaos left behind? Chaos of Iraq and Libya comes to mind. Oh wait that wasn't Russia

[@Mindsi]

The ‘Howling man’ , was Putin all along. Classic episode from the twilight zone🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@labcat647]

Has Russia ever done anything positive for the citizens of any country?

[@antinatalope]

Umm no.

[@rodpanhard]

They saved the US by repelling the British fleet when they thought they coul dtake advantage after the civil war.

[@rodpanhard]

They stopped the British from invading the US, after the US civil war their fleet repelled the British one that set out to take advantage of a weakened US.

[@rodpanhard]

They saved the US from British invasion, when the British fleet sailed against the US looking to take advantage after the US civil war it was the Russians that repelled them.

[@rodpanhard]

@@antinatalope Russia saved the US from invasion when the British fleet sailed against them seeking to take advantage of a weakened US after the civil war, it was the Russian fleet that turned them away.

[@Mindsi]

It looks like a weapons stockpile, wonder if they were for the export of revolution to Africa etc😢😢😢😢

[@Mindsi]

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[@johnsmith8410]

OK so you don't think the situation in Syria has anything to do with the people who live in Syria or slightly further afield in that region or that things like this were happening long before Russian involvement and will be long after any Russian or indeed Western involvement

[@rodpanhard]

There was clearly some kind of a deal done in Syria, the capitulation was too quick and the resistance too non existant to be natural.

[@ausbrum]

I started to read a John Le Carrier novel,a while back.one I hadn't read. The Cold War must have been the most expensive con perpetrated ever. Russia couldn't "win"It had a few Western advances, but hardly invented anything new in the 20th Century. It only got atomic weapons by stealing the formulas

[@marumaru6084]

Oh that is so funny, Syria is not one of the 7 countries the west listed for overturning and only Iran is left but heh blame Putin.

[@chrisx1197]

Nice hat, professor

[@nobbynobbs8182]

With Russia's colonial army now stuck in Syria, they'll have to beg Turkey, a NATO country, if they want to move its troops through its territory

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

A little news for you '31 Oct 2024 - During this year's annual BRICS summit in Russia on 22-24 October, Turkey made a formal application to join the BRICS group of countries.' Which as you might guess, is one of those things where Turkey shouldn't have any problems with that at all. After all BRICS is supposed to be a cooperative club.

[@nobbynobbs8182]

@@Andrew-rc3vh I got a little news for you. Apart from Russia, nobody cares about BRICS, not even the other BRICS member states. It's an empty shell. A non functional economic cooperations between countries with poor economies. And who cares if Turkey wants to join BRICS? It's not a defensive military alliance like NATO

[@ivanconnolly7332]

The same could be said of UK and US interventions ,Iraq, Afghanistan ,Libya.

[@jonathanbowen3640]

Not really.

[@raystephens9550]

The USA military might be said to be worse in a long-term kind of way, considering that the tide is rising on Bikini atoll and about to draw significant mass of heavy metal of the radioactive kind, plutonium specifically, into the Pacific Ocean. They are known for burning off their rubbish on base, and causing chronic diseases of all sorts to their own personnel, and I for one have not forgotten the damage to the health of a generation or two of children in South-east Asia by Agent Orange jungle destroyer. The policy of "life is cheap so who cares" is standard operating procedure in the death convulsions of all degenerating empires. Like the British behaviour in Kenya and Malaya, which in no small way ultimately coincided with the rise of Japan upon the spin of liberation from European colonialism.

[@rongriffiths3801]

Good morning from New Zealand! I enjoy your commentary.....its a shame China doesn't see Russia as evil ...or what does that say about that country? Many thanks for your show Have a great festive season

[@ausbrum]

Actually when I did second year Government at Sydney U, we studied the Sino/Soviet split

[@danielrainsbury2131]

Bet you're gutted everything the last government done was within the law.

[@fanfeck2844]

I don’t think it was only Nigels bias that was confirmed. It’s obvious to most of us

[@Mindsi]

@@fanfeck2844 He wants that cash, but Elon won’t just give him it, he’s gotta earn it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ianbradshaw1770]

Dear Prof. Do get a grip. Was it not an Institution in Mother Russia that awarded you a Chair in applied Leggo studies? Did they get that wrong too.

[@Mindsi]

Bigger boy on the playground, playing ‘ Bully the bully’ Lavrov Heavy Israeli airstrikes reported on Syrian military sites in coastal Tartus region Latest raids said to hit sites including air defense units and surface-to-surface missile depots; war monitor calls them ‘heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region Now Lavrov is the worlds policeman😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BrianWatts-i1b]

Nigel is correct on two tier Kier

[@Mindsi]

Spot the troll below😂😂😂😂😂😂 EdMcF1😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂’contextless’

[@johnwalsh4857]

well Karma may well come to Russia after the war in Ukraine is over, Russia becomes a massive Syria. lots of PMCs, these days in Russia.

[@milerale5286]

More like Europe/UK will become ground for world terrorists

[@stu281]

Nope not even close.

[@pb8649]

What about the chaos left behind by the west in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and Great Britain has invaded or had at some time been involved the in the overthrow of governments in 9 out of 10 of all the countries in the world. Do you know how many military bases the US has around the world. It's over 750. Russia was the only country invited into Syria by the government of the day. All the rest went in by force. Lets see what is left of Syria after it has been carved up by the west.

[@stu281]

Yes but aren’t us the west the spreaders of freedom and democracy.😂

[@peteduch2151]

Why don,t you talk about the syrian oil wich is stolen by the usa

[@Allan-hd1uh]

Stolen my ass if your paid for it it's not stealing. Take your anti American feelings somewhere else. Your probably a friend of that blood thirsty putin.

[@joshdarnell5624]

Insight-full.

[@reallymakesyouthink]

Russia leaves Syria without a fight - bad guys Israel aggressively takes land - good guys. Tim logic.

[@stu281]

Not logic but this is what passes for academia in UK. It’s brain food for morons.

[@jawadhabib8284]

It was 4 ppl in holl presin what u talking about go school learn letil bit

[@inuwooddog3027]

Do you like horror movies? Russia fighting the West is like Freddy fighting Jason, or Chucky battling Annabelle. You either keep both evils out of your country, or you let them in to fight each other.

[@kentalanlee]

Yes. Well said. Letting the US in during WWII most certainly was a bad decision for Great Britain, eh? Idiot.

[@eismcsquared]

Remember him when it’s over as ’putin the feckless’

[@milerale5286]

Professor, instead of so much hate towards Russia when are you going to do video about British,American, NATO genocides and atrocities and chaos we did in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and many other countries? All these killings of millions of innocent civilians, looting, destruction

[@andrewwarren4206]

You have the wrong channel if you are interested in such things. Tim loves russia, just not the Kremlin and khuilo. Like many others. Putin is war criminal. And i am not interested in your whataboutism or deflections. We are talking about current events.

[@candyhotlips1338]

​@@andrewwarren4206 👍👍👍

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

Reminds one of two great Empires who have Vassal states and buffer states and rulers who call themselves civilised and cultured but in reality are as brutal as those in the Roman Empire. In the scientific age it is the psychopaths and sadist who are in charge. God help us.

[@stu281]

I think you’ll be waiting a long time. This is a channel of fellow travellers devoid of common sense.

[@ianbradshaw1770]

Dear Prof. Do get a grip. Was it not an Institution in Mother Russia that awarded you a Chair in applied metaphysical Leggo studies? Did Putin get that wrong as well?

[@JamesPilgrim-ql2to]

Another excellent address from Prof. Tim. Don’t you just love him? 👍

[@pb8649]

No

[@Patendyck76]

Prof’ s a man only a Mum & the Neocon Warmongers could love

[@pb8649]

@@Patendyck76 Nice one

[@stu281]

Brain food for morons.

[@radiotowers1159]

So here are a list of countries that benefited ( to my scant knowledge) in terms of personal freedoms and human rights from the influence of the russian federation.....hold on let me think Ok here we go....no not them ..mmm em eh a thats right that would be ...mm.....no not them either. Yes what about........no..eh.... Just give me minute or two and I`ll get back to you.

[@Mindsi]

Job description - Title _Official troll marker. Duties - Mark each suspected troll with the following symbol 🧻. With the comment Below’ You have identified as a suspected troll, due to your contextless comments’. Unless you prove otherwise😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tzrgazza]

Busy day prof😂👍

[@Mindsi]

Spot the troll below😂😂😂😂😂😂 EdMcF1😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂’contextless’