British Intelligence Colonel: Putin May ‘Remove’ One Of His Allies
17- 4.01.2025, 19:04
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Well-known people from the entourage of the Russian dictator will start “falling out of windows”.
Dictator Vladimir Putin will do everything to protect his positions. Thus, in the coming months, more and more members of his entourage may start “falling out of windows”.
Retired British military intelligence colonel Philip Ingram, in a conversation with Channel 24, noted that one of his “best friends” — Bashar al-Assad — may also come under attack.
— According to The New York Times, Vladimir Putin stopped answering Bashar al-Assad's calls after the start of a major rebel offensive on Aleppo and the capital Damascus. Why do you think Putin stopped answering Assad's calls?
— I think Putin realized that he has lost influence in the Middle East and the Mediterranean due to the fall of the regime in Syria. He accuses Bashar al-Assad of failing to ensure the protection of Russia's interests as he promised. Putin supported Assad in trying to do this. He considers him a complete failure.
I don’t think Putin personally likes him and I don’t think he likes having another dictator in Moscow with access to billions of dollars who will be in the Russian capital for a certain period of time and who will be able to create a center of resistance to Putin.
Putin did not want Assad to be in Russia. But, unfortunately, he had to accept him. This is the price that Russia is paying. We see how the Russians are withdrawing their last troops from Syria, their naval forces from the military base in Tartus, closing the airfields that Russia used. Even despite this, what they say on the ground, the remaining ones.
I don’t think that the Syrian rebels will allow Russia to keep any of its bases, even if it tries to invest a lot of money in this. Because the rebels suffered from Russian planes, bombs, and also from Russia’s support for Assad. The Middle East is a strategic failure for Vladimir Putin. He has not yet felt all the consequences of this and, as usual, will blame others, including Bashar al-Assad. That's why I think he didn't answer his calls.
— Do you expect Bashar al-Assad to live in Moscow without any threat to his physical safety?
— I don't think Putin will let him live in Moscow because of his wealth. Unless he finds a way to take that wealth, which he probably will. But he will always keep a very close eye on Assad. Putin will let him live there, but with many restrictions.
Russian intelligence will keep a very close eye on his activities. If he breaks the rules, an accident could just happen. Putin could arrange for him to have a heart attack in 2-3 weeks.
— There are also reports that Bashar al-Assad is forbidden to go far from Moscow, meaning he cannot leave the city. How do you rate this attitude towards his former best friend in the Middle East?
— I think you understand that Putin initially did not want him there, so he will keep him under restrictions, knowing full well that Bashar al-Assad cannot leave Russia because he has nowhere to go. Putin will want to keep him under strict restrictions so that he does not become a threat to him, a cell for any other political movement that may emerge in the future.
So, in fact, he will keep him under an element of not necessarily house arrest, but arrest within the city. Russian intelligence services will be very closely monitoring his communications, his movements, and who visits him.
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