State Sec. Blinken Heading to Turkey to Discuss Sending Syria’s Massive Weapons Stockpiles to Ukraine - Reports
Following the defeat of the Syrian government on December 8, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on December 11 initiated an unscheduled visit to Syria’s immediate neighbours Jordan and Turkey. The shaping of Syria’s future is expected to be central to discussions, with the country’s territory currently being split between Turkish-backed Islamist paramilitaries, many of which have Turkish officers within their ranks, as well as the Israel Defence Forces which have advanced deep into the country, and U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the country’s oil rich northeastern regions. Syria was the first state in the Middle East to leave the Western sphere of influence and form close ties with the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, with the placing of its territory under Western Bloc influence having been an objective of Western, Turkish and Israeli policy in the region for over half a century. While the strategic benefits for these actors of Syria’s defeat are tremendous and wide ranging, one of the most significant for the United States is the obtaining of Syria’s arsenals of Soviet, North Korean and Russian military equipment, which are some of the very largest in the world.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/blinken-heading-turkey-discuss-syria-stockpiles-ukraine
From what news snippets have been aired, most of the Syrian 'stockpiles' have been blowded up by the Israelis. Then there are the thieving hands of the new administration of totally 'Turkish' not head-choppers - and totally 'Turkish' mind you - who will prolly hide that stuff rather than send it somewhere else. Could come in handy, ya know.
Good luck with sending 'surplus' Soviet supplies to Ukraine.
((They))'ll prolly attack Transnistria for the same reason, when they discover that there's not much to send from Syria, soon. I mean there's big stockpiles of Soviet stuff there, and they haven't volunteered it for the Ukrainians to use.
Could it be any more complex?