Security sources tell MEE Israel wanted to keep Assad in power under Emirati tutelage while establishing military and strategic ties with the Kurds in the northeast and the Druze in the south
I don’t know that any other nation involved in the conflict actually wanted Assad out of power. They thought the status quo would be maintained indefinitely.
Now none of them have a plan for what to do next because they didn’t plan for this eventuality.
I don’t know that any other nation involved in the conflict actually wanted Assad out of power. They thought the status quo would be maintained indefinitely.
Now none of them have a plan for what to do next because they didn’t plan for this eventuality.
Assad’s fall is starting to look like it has a lot in common with an Austrian motorcade…