The French newspaper “Le Monde” said that SyriaStill, more than 10 years after the start of the civil war waged by the regime, Bashar al-Assad With unprecedented brutality, it suffers from extreme poverty and its society continues to disintegrate.
The newspaper asked in its editorial: What has remained of Syria since the end of the civil war that began in 2011, during the wave of the “Arab Spring”? It said that the reports it has been publishing successively since September 15 provide valuable information, showing that Syria is a more closed country than ever before, and presenting worrying lessons.
These reports describe a country that has reached a slow and desperate internal collapse, after the outbreak of the war waged by the Syrian regime and the armed opposition with incredible brutality, and it does not stop at the irrecoverable ruins and the widespread poverty, but rather dismembers society and obliterates a generation that the temptations of exile have torn apart what the war has not crushed.
Causes of collapse
The newspaper reported that the reasons for this collapse are known, as the ruling family won power in Damascus Supported by Iran andRussia Driven by their own strategic interests, the first focused on its survival and the second was preoccupied with its war in Ukraine.
She added that no one has the means to complete the full restoration of Bashar al-Assad’s control over the area, parts of which are still outside his control, let alone finance the costly and long-term reconstruction process.
Le Monde pointed out that the influence that Iran has gained over the past decade in a region that has lost a large part of its sovereignty can only deter the Gulf states from intervening, and the sanctions imposed by the West constitute a final obstacle, especially Caesar’s Law which was adopted US Congress To protect civilians in Syria in 2019 in the name of combating impunity.
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international fatigue
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad believes, according to the newspaper, that realpolitik will eventually lead to the disappearance of these sanctions, once the only power remaining to him is recognized, which is the inconvenience caused by his harmful role in smuggling destructive synthetic drugs on a large scale in the region, without giving up the slightest bit of power.
However, this calculation remains in vain, because the symbolic reintegration of Syria into League of Arab States The impotent did not change the predicament in which Syria finds itself.
The newspaper concluded that this impasse continues to cause international irritation, especially in the countries that have received the largest number of Syrian refugees displaced by the civil war, because whenever they believe that their countries have become safe for the return of refugees, reports show that this is not the case.
