But they were stopped north of Homs by armor reserves. They then just drove around, and southern command got up and approached Damascus from south, now undefended, rather quickly. Weren’t for this, Bashar would be there for like 2 more weeks

This worked once because it was so heinously stupid that nobody was expecting it, and they almost certainly still cracked a few eggs to make this omelet. The next guy to try this is going to have a bad time. The next next guy might have a shot.

That’s the step that Putin forgot, or, inshallah, it would’ve taken him three days to Kiev