New at the Belmont Club. For now at least, the incentive to create a stable and prosperous Syria may outweigh the impulse to war.
Belmont Club: The Road From Damascus
The collapse of the Assad dynasty may not have been specifically predicted by diplomats and intelligence agencies but it was anticipated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a map of the Middle Eastern potentialities without Russia’s and Iran’s proxy empire — an empire which at the time included Lebanon and Syria – during a speech before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27, 2024.