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Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
Dec. 7, 2024
THE U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY
Caitlin Johnstone
Well it looks like the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on its way out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes depending on whether the nation maintains its current borders or is carved up into separate states. The empire notches another win.
The U.S. proxy warfare in Lebanon and Ukraine makes a lot more strategic sense now; by tying up Hezbollah and Russia in other conflicts, the path was opened up for another run on Damascus and a chance to further cut off Hezbollah from supplies. Many pundits on my end of the commentary spectrum had been calling those proxy wars self-defeating and framing them as the desperate flailings of a dying empire which will only accelerate its demise, but now here we are watching the empire score a victory it’s been chasing for years, with the western/Israeli stranglehold on the middle east growing tighter than ever.
One of the many perks of being the world’s dominant superpower is that it gives you the luxury of time. If one regime change operation fails, don’t worry, you can just move some chess pieces around and take another shot at it. If a coup attempt fails in Latin America, relax, there will be other coup attempts. If your efforts to grab Syria fail, you can just smash it with sanctions and occupy its oil fields to impoverish it while overextending its military allies in proxy conflicts elsewhere and grab it later.
Reading by Tim Foley
Article with supporting links: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/08/assad-is-out-woke-al-qaeda-is-in/
Original: https://youtu.be/8Nzewkrj26Y
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