r/blowback • u/Italiophobia • 19d ago

Vogue did a profile on Assads wife in 2012

https://archive.is/O56ld

"The glowing article praised the Assads as a "wildly democratic" family-focused couple who vacation in Europe, foster Christianity, are at ease with American celebrities, made theirs the "safest country in the Middle East," and want to give Syria a "brand essence." "

"In August, The Hill reported that U.S. lobbying firm Brown Lloyd James had been paid $5,000 per month by the Syrian government to arrange for and manage the Vogue article."

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u/Environmental_Set_30 19d ago

I can't wait for blow back season 55 in the year 2083 to finally hear about the Syrian civil war and it's blowback and aftermath in my apocalypse bunker

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u/Wide__Stance 19d ago

It’s probably down the memory hole forever now, but the month before the Syrian civil war broke out, the BBC conducted a wide-ranging poll of Syrians. Assad had a roughly 65% approval rating.

Just like Putin, for whatever reasons, most of his people loved him. At least in 2010.