Between 2011 and 2021, I would travel as many times to #Syria as the #Assad regime would let me in. This picture is from #Daraa, but during that trip, we visited #Aleppo #Hama and #Homs too. It was cristal clear already back then: #Assad was a living on borrowed time.

Dass Sonderermittler #Smith die Anklage gegen Donald #Trump wegen des Sturms aufs Kapitol fallen lässt, war zu erwarten gewesen. Der Schaden, den fehlende Rechenschaftspflicht allerdings anrichtet, ist weitreichend. Siehe… alle autokratischen Staaten, actually…