While Western states sang their refrain of "Bashar must go!" and plugged the overthrow of the Syrian regime as inevitable, various military leaders were selling their stockpiles of weapons to the rebels before fleeing to Europe or the United States.

Before the evident failure of the West, this trend has currently reversed.

Thus, Hezbollah concluded in late June and early July, two major transactions with the leaders of the Free Syrian Army. In particular, the Lebanese Resistance acquired anti tank and Russian-made RPG missiles that the rebels had received from Saudi Arabia. The second transaction was pulled off at a very low price ($ 1 million), before the "rebels" scrammed to the West with their loot.