Feelgood Story of the Year 2024

“Assad story with a happy ending”

A year whose headlines were dominated by the antics of authoritarian dictators and dictator wannabees ended with the dick in Syria, Bashar al-Assad, seeing his repressive 50 year regime toppled because his authoritarian allies were too busy spreading chaos elsewhere to come russian to his aid. The only sad note here was the fact that Assad was able to escape to live happily bitterly(?) ever after in [you guessed it] Russia.