Imperial hubris (and its consequences) in Syria

Alastair Crooke- The Syria story is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.

The Syria story is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.

At one level, the collapse was predictable. Assad was known to have been influenced by Egypt and UAE for some years past. They had been urging him to break with Iran and Russia, and to shift to the West. For some 3-4 years he had been incrementally signalling and implementing such a move.

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https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/imperial-hubris-and-its-consequences-in-syria