What is happening in Syria was obvious from the beginning 15 years ago, when the push was there by the West for a regime change. The various Western supported mercenary outfits tried again and again, until they managed to got Assad ousted and the power they craved. HTS was now in power and now they were the good guys in Western media. All this has been detailed in this thread for those who have followed it from the beginning and in numerous articles on Sott and on Newsreal. Israel was happy to support the rise to power of their proxy militias and is equally happy to now bomb them and split Syria further and to create a Libya type situation, which they can control. Much better to have the various tribes fight amongst each other with a little help when needed from Israel, than to have a cohesive state power as is was under Assad.
Kevork Almassian summed it up as seen below. His account is on X.
Kevork Almassian
Kevork Almassian summed it up as seen below. His account is on X.
Kevork Almassian
What we’re witnessing in Syria isn’t just the collapse of a state—it’s the deliberate dismemberment of a society that once housed multiple ethnicities, sects, and identities under one national roof. What’s heartbreaking isn’t just the carnage, but the clarity that came too late for too many.
For years, we tried to sound the alarm. We tried to educate, to open eyes, to offer a deeper view beyond the binary narrative of regime vs. rebels. But many didn’t want to listen—some out of fear, others out of convenience, and many simply because the story didn’t fit the oversimplified script of good guys vs. bad guys.Those of us who did see it coming, those who warned about the growing presence of jihadist extremists, the Takfiri fanatics imported from Central Asia to Xinjiang to Libya, were not just ignored. We were mocked, censored, or demonized. But we were right.
Let’s be brutally honest here: coexistence with the so-called reformed al-Qaeda regime was never going to be possible. The idea that Syria could transition into some liberal democratic utopia while foreign-backed jihadists execute Alawite and Druze villagers with impunity is not just naive—it’s insulting.
And in the vacuum, the vultures descended. Israel postured as savior, the U.S. played geopolitical chess, and regional powers fueled their own fires.
Ordinary Syrians, caught in a blender of dogma and drones, were left asking only for one thing: “Just let us live.” When the bar for dignity becomes mere survival, you know the experiment has failed. To ignore the degenerative role of imported extremists—disguised as freedom fighters—is to rewrite history with blood-soaked hands. It wasn’t a simple civil war.
It was a controlled demolition of a nation, designed to produce either fragmentation or submission to foreign influence. The plan wasn’t botched; it was executed to perfection. Balkanization wasn’t the risk—it was the goal.