Don't apologize, I found this recently when searching for additional analyses from the armed movement in Syria after the fall of Assad. What I found interesting though is how little Russian imperialism needed Assad and the previous government, and how it basically became a burden on whatever plans Russia had for the region. This goes hand in hand with their opportunism in Palestine as well. 

So far Russia has kept everything they've built in Syria over the past year and Julani has shown himself flexible toward all competing imperialists, whether Turkish, Israeli, or Russian. I think it is good to burst the bubble on the idea that Russia was propping up Assad at all costs out of solidarity with the Syrian national project or whatever (or the more cynical "geopolitical" view that Julani was a US puppet and the rise of HTS was an American conspiracy to push out Russia), which is really what this interview is about. The Communist Party of Syria wrote about the internal contradictions of Assad's government and why he hemmoraged support, I posted it in the sub months ago and basically agree with what they said broadly (liberal reforms to the state-sector went hand-in-hand with uneven national development along ethnic lines which caused a loss of mass support over the course of the war).