In what direction will Syria go after the fall of Bashar al-Assad? How will this affect geostrategic developments? Who all influenced the rapid fall of the regime in Damascus, and what message is this to Moscow – analyzed journalist and former diplomat Hajrudin Somun.
The surprise is that the regime fell, Somun believes, but, he adds, for those who follow that end and developments, it is not a big surprise.
“Otherwise, these totalitarian, dictatorial regimes, such as Assad’s, rarely or never fall peacefully, usually by force and speed. It is obviously a matter of long preparations and the interest of all factors involved in the Syrian war and crisis, that he should go,” Somun states.
In its own way, this is the denouement of the 2021 uprising, he says, but he would like it to go in a different direction, not the way it went in Syria then.
“You remember the Arab Spring, we all hoped that it would usher the Arab world into a historic period of democracy, peace and cooperation. The Arab Spring erupted everywhere, especially in Syria, and eventually turned into a civil war,” Somun recalls.
He is of the opinion that the rule of both father and son, and not only them, will enter some black file of the history of the Arab world, because both father and son ruled for half a century.
“With the departure of Bashar, the last offshoot of that unfortunate party BAAS, which in its program and practice is theirs, and what they have done in Iraq and Syria, looks to me like Mussolini’s fascism. “I even found in some documents that the program created by the founder of the party copied entire sentences from Mussolini’s books,” points out Somun, N1 writes.
