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Why did #Assad survive against all odds?
Losing was never an option
Alternative wasn’t going to involve retiring to a farm or taking up painting
Your own neck was first
Your entire sect were to follow quickly after
Of course you were going to call Iran/Russia or the Devil
Losing was never an option
Alternative wasn’t going to involve retiring to a farm or taking up painting
Your own neck was first
Your entire sect were to follow quickly after
Of course you were going to call Iran/Russia or the Devil
But it wasn’t just Assad that made this calculus
Scores of different groups were going to be accused of being “regime supporters”
Their own necks were going to be next
The judge was going to be anyone who points fingers at you for being Shabih شبيح
@KevorkAlmassian
Scores of different groups were going to be accused of being “regime supporters”
Their own necks were going to be next
The judge was going to be anyone who points fingers at you for being Shabih شبيح
@KevorkAlmassian
Western capitals & #Syria experts in the meantime were seeing the crisis from the prism of
Goodbye to dictatorship and hello to freedom and democracy
This rather simple but elegant narrative of the crisis was totally oblivious to the more real visceral & bloody nature of it
Goodbye to dictatorship and hello to freedom and democracy
This rather simple but elegant narrative of the crisis was totally oblivious to the more real visceral & bloody nature of it
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