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Originally Posted by blankall
The guys still ultra rich and has considerable political influence. It would make a lot more sense for the Russians to extort Assad over a long period of time. Russia also gets a kick out of harbouring its enemies' enemies.
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Yeah, unless he's the dumbest dictator to ever hold power he's probably got millions if not billions squirrelled away in numbered accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. He can still be useful to Russia in the future so he's not going to "disappear". Not yet anyways.
As for what this means for Syria and the world... who knows. Dust isn't even close to settling and all folk can do is hope that it isn't Khomeini replacing the Shah.